Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd arranged to meet her at in the West End , he told me , but had been at a loss for a suitable landmark as a meeting place . |
| 2 | But would the pain of losing him be any the less simply because she 'd managed to hold him at bay ? |
| 3 | He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 . |
| 4 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 5 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 6 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 7 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 8 | As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop . |
| 9 | Before he had finished he had become manager 's clerk at the Newcastle branch and the bank had offered to sponsor him at university . |
| 10 | After demonstrations outside his home and threats to his life , Tshisekedi refused the position , denying that he had agreed to take it at a secret meeting with the President . |
| 11 | She had refused to believe it at first , her mind so full of him that her eyes kept on seeing him , playing tricks on her , raising false and cruel hopes . |
| 12 | She was still golden , and silken , and goddess-like , and had welcomed John and Astorre and himself with a kind of free , self-possessed amusement that had seemed to make them at once her long-established friends . |
| 13 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 14 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 15 | At first I found him a difficult subject to interview because , to paraphrase Donne , when he had done he had not done , he still had more ; and I had to learn to give him at least five seconds , grace before moving on , because his afterthoughts were often gems . |