Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then startled champions-elect Everton with an early goal when we met them at their Goodison Park headquarters a week later ( 1–2 ) . |
| 2 | Found them at my pet antiques dealer in Cannes . |
| 3 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 4 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 5 | Vacations found him at his estate at Murthly , Perthshire , or , after its sale in 1921 , on Speyside and in St Andrews . |
| 6 | Joachim died , probably in Denmark , in 1535 ; some time before 1541 his relatives placed Daniel with a branch of his grandmother 's Wieland family , who trained him at their lead , copper , and silver mines and smelting works in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Tyrol , part of the archbishopric of Salzburg . |
| 7 | ‘ We played them at their place not so long ago and we drew 1-1 in a good , entertaining game so we 're looking forward to getting them back here . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ When I dropped you at your villa , I went straight to the hospital and told your father I wanted you to come and work for me . ’ |
| 9 | I consoled him at my breast when he wept . |
| 10 | It was not far from Moira roundabout to Aldergrove , a half an hour or so , but by the time Rory dropped her at her car , Jessica Roberts had made up her mind . |
| 11 | She imagined him at his desk , his head in his hands . |
| 12 | As Chief Inspector of Accidents it was within my domain to agree or reject the proposal , so Geoffrey Holton telephoned me at my home that Sunday morning and I immediately agreed to the UK being responsible for the investigation . |
| 13 | But we always encouraged them at our house by putting out tempting bowlfuls of soggy bread and milk . |
| 14 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 15 | ‘ They telephoned you at your hotel , did n't they ? ’ |
| 16 | The couple met while on holiday in Greece in 1987 and married after she joined him at his base in South Dakota . |
| 17 | The real Susan Bishopric raised her deserved award and swung it at her head . |
| 18 | It was the way Israel Hands watched me at my work , a cold little smile on his face . |
| 19 | Three days later he rang me at my sock . |
| 20 | Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We needed her at our meeting with the chairman this morning . |
| 22 | Hearn rang him at his home to plead with him to change his mind but Benn just snapped : ‘ I 'm not coming . ’ |
| 23 | Champion picked up his whip and waved it at his mount to encourage him over those last few yards , and Aldaniti responded gamely . |
| 24 | ‘ Laid him at his enemy 's mercy . |
| 25 | I met him at his son 's flat in north London — a somewhat incongruous setting for a man who 's spent so much of his time in some of the wildest places in the world . |
| 26 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 27 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | So I took them at their word and phoned them up . |
| 29 | If you saw her at her work , you might have a very different impression of her , when that gentle , luminous quality turns to a radiant involvement with her task . |
| 30 | I saw her at her father 's funeral , where her dignity was exemplary . |