Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] 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 | Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease . |
| 6 | I learned of his death when I tried to telephone him at Ladram Avionics . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried to sign him at QPR three years ago , then again during the summer , ’ said Wednesday 's player-boss . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I thought you said she 'd to cash it at Barclay . |
| 13 | She felt the lie was unconvincing , but he seemed to take it at face value . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When Dr Reid arrived to fetch me at Green 's he announced that he had left his car by the pier . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | ] ‘ I went to see her at Claridge 's … they are always so obsequious when one asks for her … . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I went to see him at Covent Garden and came away thinking ‘ What am I doing with this miserable life ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You never went to find her at Rosslare ? |
| 24 | Richard Wiles went to meet them at home . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 : |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | ‘ Most of them preferred to see it at home . |
| 30 | Conservatives voted to keep them at 10p , but were defeated . |