Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NURSE IS KNIFED AT HOSPITAL |
| 2 | She has won at modelling , at running boutiques , at photography , she is winning at writing . |
| 3 | Coventry , however , have not won at home in the League since mid-September and are without the suspended McGrath , Gynn taking over in midfield . |
| 4 | A popular legend tells of Arion , a lyric poet and musician , who was returning to Greece from Italy , laden with riches he had won at music competitions . |
| 5 | This expedition was sanctioned on the understanding that there was good money to be won at wrestling . |
| 6 | They are unlikely to find easy pickings at Hillsborough , Wednesday having just won at Forest and with King and Sheridan making their first home appearances . |
| 7 | Nottingham Forest v Norwich Norwich 's manager Dave Stringer was playing the last time his team won at Forest — in 1974 . |
| 8 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
| 9 | My father writes : ‘ Is teased at school about being vain , and no wonder . |
| 10 | I WAS concerned to read your report ‘ Planners attacked at hotel inquiry ’ ( Echo February 19 ) , in which former councillor John Bacon was quoted at length . |
| 11 | The message merely reported that the French had attacked at dawn and that the Prussian outposts had been driven in south of Charleroi . |
| 12 | Police attacked at acid house parties |
| 13 | Organised at state level , the Guard is composed of part-timers who undergo a statutory period of training with the regular Army . |
| 14 | Distributed scheduling , with departmental servers acting as individual data centres , needs to be organised at end user level , also with appropriate security . |
| 15 | The igfet SC implementation constructed at King 's uses a chip designed at University College , and fabricated at Plessey III/V for the operational amplifier and capacitor parts of the circuit . |
| 16 | The straw hats they 're seen in here are only a fraction of the collection they 've amassed at home . |
| 17 | He was the man who held the drawstrings to the Shah 's own private fortune , amassed at home and abroad since the Shah had found himself penniless in his first exile in 1953 . |
| 18 | Saturday work is usual in the retail trade ; however much the social disruption is stressed at interview , keen candidates may nevertheless filter out the information they do not want to hear , resigning six months later to find a Monday to Friday job . |
| 19 | Vast fortunes and vast debts exist only in green digits displayed on a video screen , to be wiped out or distorted at will . |
| 20 | The breakthrough to finding broad spectrum quinolones was made in the early 1980s , when fluorine was substituted at position 6 , a piperazinyl residue was introduced at position 7 and new residues were introduced at position 1 of the quinolone basic structure ( 7–10 ) . |
| 21 | In 1975–76 the cycloaracylation process , a new general method for making quinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acids substituted at position 1 , was developed while working on synthesising heterocyclic compounds by cycloacylating tautomeric enamines and enhydrazines with bifunctional acylating agents . |
| 22 | Rocastle began the first Euro tie in Stuttgart but was substituted at half-time , and all his other five appearances have been as a replacement . |
| 23 | His daughters came on their ponies to Auntie 's shop to buy sweets , and they were educated at home until they were old enough for boarding-school . |
| 24 | Otherwise he was educated at home , at first by his mother and then by a succession of tutors . |
| 25 | He was educated at home by his family , particularly by his elder brother John Pauncefort Arrowsmith who later published an account The Art of Instructing the Infant Deaf and Dumb in 1819 . |
| 26 | Dorothy Stanton Wise was born deaf at Dover where she was educated at home by her mother who had taken her to see the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton for advice . |
| 27 | My sister Pat , aged thirteen was in theory being educated at home according to a syllabus devised by the Parents ' National Educational Union , and which worked on a postal basis in much the same way as the Open University does today . |
| 28 | Cameron was educated at home in a remote farmhouse with his younger brother and sister by parents Val and Phil . |
| 29 | Born in 1876 , Violet Needham was educated at home with a governess like any other conventional girl of her class in the late nineteenth century and grew up ‘ to think as a European ’ . |
| 30 | Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza . |