Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ Lissa , ’ Adam greeted her at the door .
32 Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye .
33 " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine .
34 Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself .
35 When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door .
36 Mrs Bennett waylaid her at the door of the little sitting-room which Celia had designated for her and Brian 's everyday use .
37 Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom .
38 Christina approached him at the reception desk where he stood .
39 ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson .
40 Freya thanked me at the end of her letter for ‘ taking the time to care about a subject so little understood ’ , which was a sentence I heard often from girls in one way or another , in researching this book .
41 Consistent with her belief that the single market is the key to European prosperity and ‘ closer integration ’ as well as ‘ an example and opportunity ’ to Eastern Europe , Mrs Thatcher stressed it at the expense of Delors and the Social Charter — for which she predicted ‘ considerable difficulties ’ from many countries when detailed proposals emerged .
42 Kath left them at the lift , and as the doors closed she caught a glimpse of him crouching down and talking to the little lad , his warm brown eyes kindly and concerned .
43 BRM scrapped it at the end of 1967 .
44 Wycliffe joined him at the table .
45 The man in charge of the investigation , Supt Stan Fletcher , said : ‘ Local police in Newcastle arrested him at a hotel last night .
46 Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey .
47 Last Sunday 200 GCSE students from Down 's School in Compton saw it at the cinema as part of their coursework .
48 Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them .
49 The bleeding persisted and Jean was very weak when Jim left her at the maternity ward .
50 Ahmad Soungui , hitherto Foreign Minister , became Minister of Information and Culture , and the former Minister of Information , Culture and Tourism , Mahamat Saleh Ahmat replaced him at the Foreign Ministry .
51 I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 !
52 Taff joined me at the gun .
53 Instead of bowling the ball , which bore a small silver shield , Mr Cottle threw it at a low-flying swan .
54 Thornton rebuilt it at the foot of the castle ramparts .
55 Captain Slocum did it at the end of the nineteenth century . ’
56 He was obviously well-known because people nodded to him , smiled , glanced curiously at her as Feargal sat her at a small table at the rear .
57 On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) .
58 Wood met him at the door .
59 Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs .
60 He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) .
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