Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 2 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 3 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 4 | However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions . |
| 5 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 6 | He says that Murray Johnstone looked at the idea but concluded that : ‘ There did n't seem to be much sense in launching a common investment fund . |
| 7 | Neil MacDonald looks at the havoc this is creating in a coup-prone land . |
| 8 | Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness . |
| 9 | Representatives of the Phoenix King arrived at the court of the Emperor of Cathay . |
| 10 | Neil Fitzgerald looks at the case for finding a fast-track route for commercial actions . |
| 11 | Taken aback , he mentioned the football match to be fought on New Year 's Day between the Repertory company and the pantomime cast of Treasure Island appearing at the Empire . |
| 12 | Miss Havisham looked at the fire , and then at me again . |
| 13 | David Spiller glances at the newspaper coverage of the Headingley Test |
| 14 | In 1879 the eldest daughter to the Rev. Richard Cecil died at the age of 97 . |
| 15 | That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . " |
| 16 | ‘ What 's puzzling me is that phone-call Nicola had at the party . |
| 17 | Miss Harker blinked at the boy , utterly baffled . |
| 18 | Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three . |
| 19 | On the contrary , as Professor Northcote Parkinson noted at the time , the civil service expanded as never before , locally as well as nationally , and the prominent place of central-government expenditure ( consistently over 40 per cent as a proportion of gross national product in this period ) is an outstanding feature of the period 1951–64 . |
| 20 | That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores . |
| 21 | As a result , when Richard Baxter arrived at the camp , he was seen as a Royalist sympathiser . |
| 22 | Amid these cliches , sly slanders and unavoidable realities , Ann Jones sits at the net and ponders . |
| 23 | Amid these cliches , sly slanders and unavoidable realities , Ann Jones sits at the net and ponders . |
| 24 | Ambrose , with the wind at his back at the southern end from which he had terminated England 's dogged resistance on the last afternoon of the 1990 Test , also had four wickets on the day , completing the latest West Indian triumph at Kensington by having David Richardson caught at the wicket and bowling Allan Donald with successive balls 20 minutes from lunch . |
| 25 | Miss Danziger waited at the place known as Lakeside at St Lund , where small craft poached alongside the road . |
| 26 | Guthrie Hepwood sat at the head of the table with Leith seated on his right , and with Naylor next to her . |
| 27 | The Brigade Major glanced at the sun . |
| 28 | Mrs. Bidwell arrived at the door as the two attendants from the mortuary van were carrying out the body . |
| 29 | The pig Agnes had at the moment was just about ready to have its throat slit so she would send Alisdair to the market for a new one . |
| 30 | Motor cycling was also popular at Brooklands and the great John Cobb was synonymous with the circuit and his lap record of 230.80 kph ( 143.44 mph ) in a 24-litre Napier-Railton stood at the time of the circuit 's closure . |