Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] at [noun prp] " 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 learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I thought you said she 'd to cash it at Barclay . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When Dr Reid arrived to fetch me at Green 's he announced that he had left his car by the pier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ] ‘ I went to see her at Claridge 's … they are always so obsequious when one asks for her … . |
| 13 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You never went to find her at Rosslare ? |
| 15 | I got a sun-'n'-sex postcard from Heraklion , worked out which day they 'd be returning , telephoned all possible airlines and went to meet them at Gatwick . |
| 16 | Baldwin then went to meet her at Victoria Station and walked the half mile to their Eaton Square house with her , describing , as she subsequently wrote to her husband 's mother , what had happened , in slightly breathless terms : |
| 17 | Breeze and Gay went to meet her at Clyst St George station , and hardly recognized the ultra-smart figure which languidly emerged from the train , as the boon companion of not so long ago . |
| 18 | And then it was further endorsed because I went to hear him at Johnstown and I thought to myself well I felt sorry that he was erm what 's the word I want ? |
| 19 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 20 | She chuckled at her romanticism : even most of the historians who had taught her at Cambridge sported tattered leather jackets and greasy jeans . |
| 21 | If the children had found it and Rachel had pointed it at Matthew in a child 's game , I dread to think about the consequences . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 23 | He had phoned her at Milton Buildings , saying that he had a routine enquiry to make about the Datsun , would have asked for Mr Marius Steen but , owing to the recent regrettable happening , wondered if she could help . |
| 24 | Luke had met her at Euston . |
| 25 | Betty had met me at Bellanoch , whisking me off to a venison dinner at her friend 's at Ford . |
| 26 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 27 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 28 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |
| 29 | He had missed us at Alassio and followed the train in his car , he had something to speak to her about . |
| 30 | She recalled the Jewish woman who had lectured them at Holmsly Manor . |