Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were disappointed when Sheffield Wednesday turned down our bid for David Hirst so we looked at the situation again and decided that Cantona was the best . |
| 2 | A few months ago we looked at the Fender Hot Rod Strat , featuring a DiMarzio humbucker at the bridge : an off-the-peg version of one of the most common custom options requested of guitar repairmen today . |
| 3 | Could n't take the tight lips and the heavy sighs whenever they looked at the twins . ’ |
| 4 | The Sultan spent £58,000 on a birthday party for his 11-year-old daughter at Claridges in London and when his eldest , Prince Billah , turned 15 two years ago he celebrated at the world 's biggest palace , worth £250,000 , in a gold covered carriage . |
| 5 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 6 | Alford Grammar school also had a hand in the education of Captain John Smith before he went to Louth and Thomas Paine , famous for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania and for his written works , in particular ‘ The Rights of Man ’ , lived here for several years when he worked at the Excise Office . |
| 7 | An hour later they arrived at the airport . |
| 8 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 9 | There was so much blood , and the girl left her own prints where she grabbed at the knife — probably trying to drag it out . |
| 10 | A week later he arrived at the office together with his wife Linda . |
| 11 | It was an improvement on last week when he arrived at the place , though . |
| 12 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 13 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 14 | There were extraordinary scenes when he arrived at the LSE . |
| 15 | Edward Fakeney , who 's forty-seven and from Northampton , pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Farmer when he appeared at the Crown Court . |
| 16 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 17 | It was mid-afternoon when they arrived at the compound 's rear gate . |
| 18 | I had none of [ the former ] assets when I started at the Bar ; but my 25 years in practice were the happiest in my life . |
| 19 | Andrew , now 29 , was 15 that summer when he knocked at the door and introduced himself . |
| 20 | A third took him into the garden where he looked at the neat undisturbed flower-beds . |
| 21 | ( Henry ) Wooden , his valet for seven years who on his marriage left his service and came to Henley where he worked at the Brewery for 30 years . |
| 22 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 23 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 24 | On his way home he called at the hotel to thank Mrs Wood for her kindness . |
| 25 | Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca . |
| 26 | Great therefore was my respect for our swift and silent counter of books and boxes when he announced at the end of his calculations , made just before the sale : ‘ You have about 4,000 more books this year . ’ |
| 27 | AN alleged IRA gunman wore nothing but a pair of boxer shorts when he appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday charged with murder . |
| 28 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 29 | Next day I lunched with Hugh [ Lygon ] and drank with him all afternoon and sallied out with him fighting drunk at tea-time when we drank at the New Reform until dinner . |
| 30 | As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands . |