Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] at [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chauffeurs had met them at their Inn on the Park hotel , at seven o'clock sharp ; and at five minutes to eight they had taken their seats around the long elliptical table at European headquarters to ensure the meeting began on time , at precisely eight o'clock . |
| 2 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 3 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 4 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 5 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 6 | I mean , now he 's got me at his mercy , he 's not going to do what anyone would expect . |
| 7 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 8 | She 'd watched him at his breakfast out by the terrace , and he could barely feed himself . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , General Yen , I seem to have left them at my hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ He has put me at your service , sir , ’ replied the monk , ‘ for the love this boy bears you . |
| 11 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 12 | Chances were he would have taken her at her word . |
| 13 | The devil , or alternatively the giant , Wade , is supposed to have scooped out the hole during a quarrel with a neighbour , and thrown it at his adversary . |
| 14 | But no , she had taken it at its face value : from Ivan , of all people , who spread malice as his trade . |
| 15 | We should have beaten them at their place as well . |
| 16 | She had surely not learnt them at her boarding-school , whose high-minded staff and prissy pupils she had described to him , and whose old-fashioned upper-classy slang she sometimes employed . |