Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 2 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 3 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 4 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 5 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 6 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 7 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 8 | A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time . |
| 9 | yeah people have seen them at the discos and , will do , and er even , even those that gives patterns or designs people are buying , have in the house now instead of watching television , sit and watch the pattern on the wall er , but erm |
| 10 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 11 | I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills . |
| 12 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 13 | And I have seen them at the mid-day rest hour of twelve to one , I have seen a ploughman come into the stable , shake up the straw in the stall of his leading beast and lie down there and sleep . |
| 14 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 15 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 16 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 17 | Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you . |
| 18 | Anyway I realized I 'd have missed you at the Club , so I turned round and set off back . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't seen you at the station recently , ’ said the Station Master . |
| 20 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 21 | Wickham suspected he looked dubious because she hurried on : ‘ Oh , I know you 're thinking I might not have noticed him at the bar . |
| 22 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 23 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |
| 24 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 25 | I have even seen him at the hairdresser 's , supporting her head as her hair is washed . |
| 26 | I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended . |
| 27 | I 've seen him at the club many times . |
| 28 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 29 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 30 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |