Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it at 9.30pm yet heard Mr Gilbey tell Diana he was about to meet friends for dinner . |
| 2 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 3 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 4 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 5 | ‘ He met me at the station … ’ |
| 6 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 7 | He remained an active supporter of CND , boasted that his daughter had been conceived on an Aldermaston march , and had once horrified Margaret Thatcher by wearing his CND badge when he met her at a gathering of northern business people . |
| 8 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 9 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 10 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 11 | It was n't until the launch had vanished around the tip of Vittoriosa , and the soaring golden bulk of Fort St Angelo , that she realised he had n't told her what time he expected her at Casa Sciorto tomorrow evening . |
| 12 | Mrs Cullam did n't even look at him and when he asked her at what time her husband had come home on Friday night she said laconically , ‘ Quarter past eleven . ’ |
| 13 | Pat was having an affair — and in a crowded restaurant , he asked her at the top of the sentorian Williams voice : ‘ Well tell us about this man you 're having the affair with then . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |
| 15 | He led her at a good trot through the country lanes , by Bramfield and Tattle Hill , through Thieves Lane to Hertingfordbury . |
| 16 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 17 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 18 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 19 | He levelled it at the gunman then let his hand drop to his side . |
| 20 | ‘ He found her at the Borrehus at Falster where Søren , her third husband , manned the ale taps and where she ferried peasants and their cattle across the sound . |
| 21 | When he found her at Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent Pounds 68,000 on the house next door . |
| 22 | He found them at Neath Abbey , and the king was taken to Renilworth Castle while Isabella and Mortimer proceeded to wreak their vengeance on his supporters . |
| 23 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 24 | I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment , when I was more worried about myself than I am now . |
| 25 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 26 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 27 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 28 | Well he beat me at dinner at erm |
| 29 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her ‘ danger man ’ husband to free their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |
| 30 | A DISTRAUGHT mum last night begged her danger man husband to return their two young children after he snatched them at gunpoint . |