Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 2 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 3 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 4 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 5 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
| 6 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 7 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
| 8 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 9 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 10 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 11 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
| 12 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 13 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |
| 14 | 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind . |
| 15 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 16 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
| 17 | Rich and Syb met me at the station . |
| 18 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 19 | Newley bought it at the Warton sale . |
| 20 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 21 | The Khan got her at the sack of T'sosei , and when the Kha-Khan — the present one 's father — wanted her for himself , the Khan married her . |
| 22 | As the spacesuit folded in on itself like one of the Transformers toys that had fascinated the boys in Ace 's school for a brief season , Defries joined her at the window . |
| 23 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 24 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |
| 25 | Mrs Rose left him at the station and returned alone to London . |
| 26 | ‘ Lissa , ’ Adam greeted her at the door . |
| 27 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door . |
| 30 | Mrs Bennett waylaid her at the door of the little sitting-room which Celia had designated for her and Brian 's everyday use . |