Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 2 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 3 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 4 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 5 | She once tried to draw herself at school ‘ when I was obsessed with the dark circles under my eyes . |
| 6 | Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease . |
| 7 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 8 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 9 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 10 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 11 | He 'd met her at work , which was about the only place where he did meet people these days . |
| 12 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 13 | When my mother and a friend came to visit me at Wolverton I brought them to Cambridge and , with the confidence of inexperience , I took them punting on the river . |
| 14 | It was quite unheard of in the Army for such a small unit to have its own self-designed insignia , but some months later Stirling , quite undismayed , wore his cap badge on parade when General Auchinleck came to inspect them at Kabrit . |
| 15 | I got in you know , on this guy he 's oh no , no , he said he he 'd got one at home , he said I ca n't afford blooming two ! |
| 16 | I thought you said she 'd to cash it at Barclay . |
| 17 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 18 | Did you notice she says she did n't have owt and she 'd left it at home ? |
| 19 | She felt the lie was unconvincing , but he seemed to take it at face value . |
| 20 | Boulton happened to meet him at Exeter however , and as it did not coincide with the ideas of the firm to lose the services of their best engineer in this fashion , Murdock was persuaded to return . |
| 21 | When Dr Reid arrived to fetch me at Green 's he announced that he had left his car by the pier . |
| 22 | It is in Britain 's interest for us to be at the heart of that Europe — where the Prime Minister said that he wanted us , but where he signally failed to put us at Maastricht . |
| 23 | She could have her Mum I heard call her at home to make sure , if anything had happened , so |
| 24 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 25 | Sort of when I first started using it at work |
| 26 | At first I had thought she would recover , but when I learned her illness was serious , I decided to visit her at night , for what might be the last time . |
| 27 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 28 | ] ‘ I went to see her at Claridge 's … they are always so obsequious when one asks for her … . |
| 29 | I had witnessed Sister Kenny 's unusual treatment when I went to see her at work at Queen Mary 's Hospital for Children in Carshalton , one of several hospitals we had visited during our advanced student days . |
| 30 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |