Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl .
2 ‘ He met me at the station … ’
3 Rich and Syb met me at the station .
4 I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’
5 My faithful driver , Murphy , met me at the gate , taking my bags and walking me past the vagrants and money changers to his car , an old American model that had become something of a collector 's item .
6 Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room .
7 On the appointed Saturday in October , Micky met me at the railway station and drove me ( in a fairly elderly Morris Oxford with a canvas hood ) right down the High as far as the University Church , and there he parked ( no problem then ) .
8 He met them at the gate and was smiling .
9 His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate .
10 And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow .
11 Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs .
12 He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law .
13 The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment .
14 I got nothing at the table right .
15 They told you when you asked them at the club .
16 The printed text of Taskopruzade says that Molla Arab , having studied under Khidr Bey ( Hizir Bey ) at the Sultan medrese in Bursa , became his at the Darulhadis medrese in Edirne .
17 Their landlord visited them at the flat to recover back rent .
18 Well somebody built them at the boat builders in Orkney built some .
19 Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig .
20 Well the Fox prediction tonight is that Oxford United will draw and probably beat them at the Manor .
21 ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor .
22 Sundowner time found me at the Clachaig Inn ( JTR either went there or to the Temperance Hotel in Glencoe Village on the edge of Loch Leven ) after twenty-odd miles wandering and walking .
23 She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ .
24 ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’
25 But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track .
26 Although Phil had been slightly reserved in his manner towards her ( Nancy ) , she knew that that was his way and she was enjoying the company of that wiry , small-boned , gently spoken citizen from Sacramento who almost invariably found himself at the back of every queue that ever formed itself .
27 Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause .
28 As though his feet were programmed he found himself at the Incident Room .
29 A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 .
30 For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure .
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