Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 4 | He 'd met her at work , which was about the only place where he did meet people these days . |
| 5 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After he 'd left her at Wild Tor , they would never see each other again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 10 | After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it . |
| 11 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But he had seen it at once , when Berdichev had first shown him the Aristotle File . |
| 16 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 17 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 18 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 19 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 20 | He had missed us at Alassio and followed the train in his car , he had something to speak to her about . |
| 21 | He had phoned her at Milton Buildings , saying that he had a routine enquiry to make about the Datsun , would have asked for Mr Marius Steen but , owing to the recent regrettable happening , wondered if she could help . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 26 | Paddick told him it was because he had watched him at work for so long . |
| 27 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 28 | It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ? |
| 29 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 30 | When one of the witnesses pointed out that the testator had not signed the will the testator replied that he had signed it at the top and that it could be signed anywhere . |