Example sentences of "greet [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he greets me at the door , he is still wearing an apron , after ‘ helping out ’ in the attached tea shop which he runs ‘ as a bit of a hobby ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm incredibly romantic , ’ said Guy when he greets me at his door holding a bunch of carnations in one hand and a book of poetry by John Keats in the other . |
| 3 | The Champ greets me at the door to his mother 's house in Louisville . |
| 4 | and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou |
| 5 | To do nothing might be worse — Allan had greeted them at the house with the news ( fresh from the great oven of rumour , the widow Duff 's at Ballinluig ) that a file of English soldiers had ridden out from Perth . |
| 6 | It had begun to rain , the same sad summer drizzle which had greeted me at Kings Cross . |
| 7 | A friendly face and a wealth of knowledge will greet you at Hastings Tourist Information Centre . |
| 8 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 11 | Liam wondered why there were such long faces to greet him at the shop . |
| 12 | Windscreen washers greet you at every corner , and if you give money , lean into your car window , shouting ‘ We a one blood ! ’ , the words ringing with pride . |
| 13 | Much to my surprise , Karen greeted me at the front door with a glass of champagne in her hand and , still more unusual , a smile on her face . |
| 14 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 15 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
| 16 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
| 17 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 18 | ‘ Lissa , ’ Adam greeted her at the door . |
| 19 | His manner as he greeted her at the church door , then ushered her to her seat , did nothing to dispel her apprehension . |
| 20 | ‘ Hello ! ’ he greeted her at once , clearly delighted to have met her . |
| 21 | Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream . |
| 22 | In 1896 while sculling at Putney , an oarsman had been sunk by a stone-throwing youth , and in the following year there was a complaint that a yacht 's skylight had been broken at Lambeth Bridge and then ‘ a shower of horse dung greeted us at Chelsea ’ . |
| 23 | The song of a nightingale greeted us at the entrance to Hotel Glade . |
| 24 | Our host greeted us at the entrance gate , shaking me by the hand , bowing to Olivia , embracing the mali and frowning at Balvinder Singh . |
| 25 | Melford and a group of bowmen greeted us at the gate . |
| 26 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 27 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 28 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |