Example sentences of "[noun sg] greet [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The Champ greets me at the door to his mother 's house in Louisville . |
5 | Our host greeted us at the entrance gate , shaking me by the hand , bowing to Olivia , embracing the mali and frowning at Balvinder Singh . |
6 | The song of a nightingale greeted us at the entrance to Hotel Glade . |
7 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |