Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 14 | Their landlord visited them at the flat to recover back rent . |
| 15 | Well somebody built them at the boat builders in Orkney built some . |
| 16 | Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig . |
| 17 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 21 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 22 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 23 | Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom . |
| 24 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 25 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 26 | ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door . |
| 27 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 28 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 29 | Christina approached him at the reception desk where he stood . |
| 30 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |