Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 2 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
| 3 | Er we always tried to put it over at er Everest product prices . |
| 4 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 5 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 6 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 7 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 8 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 9 | But they were waiting and , into a pause , he mentioned that he 'd met them over at Jimmy 's . |
| 10 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 11 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 12 | No , but eh , another word that was I 've heard used , and it was , actually it was quite annoying because the chap used it , used it wrongly , but I did n't know that he 'd used it wrongly at the time . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I 'd understood it more at the time . ’ |
| 14 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 15 | She decided to play them out at the game they had chosen . |
| 16 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 17 | I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight . |
| 18 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |
| 19 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 20 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 21 | He remembered surprising her once at work . |
| 22 | When she did get it in at last , she had to be careful not to trap its tail in the lid when she slid it closed . |
| 23 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 24 | Jack had also met Tina 's grandad , whose quick mind and sense of humour had won him over at once . |
| 25 | Finally , he had felt sick at his behaviour and had dropped her off at her home with a feeling of relief that she was not the clinging type and perhaps he could avoid her in future . |
| 26 | Her father had dropped her off at her best friend 's house … . ’ |
| 27 | Marc had dropped her off at her flat in the early hours with little more being said between them . |
| 28 | Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word . |
| 29 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
| 30 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |