Example sentences of "[vb pp] her at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post .
3 It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time .
4 Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house .
5 We 'd have seen her at the window long ago , and got her down . ’
6 ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary .
7 ‘ I have only seen her at the funeral .
8 She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck .
9 He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity .
10 Creggan had never seen her at the front of her cage before .
11 He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them .
12 I have watched her at the opera , where she glittered .
13 We might have got her at the ferry . ’
14 She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations .
15 This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone .
16 The other occupants of the boat were a Marine sergeant and one of the soldiers who had found her at the village .
17 She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer .
18 He must have heard her at the door .
19 All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing .
20 He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him .
21 Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy .
22 To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry .
23 When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again .
24 Graf is one of the world 's top tennis players whose supreme athleticism and guts have put her at the top of a very tough profession .
25 They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby .
26 Highly ambitious , but not a high achiever , Modesty and a lack of confidence have kept her at the Post Office ‘ instead of earning twice as much as Lord Hanson ’ .
27 This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time .
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