Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] at a " in BNC.

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1 The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate .
2 Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school .
3 The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London .
4 There were the two gold and jewelled boxes Müller had sold him at a staggering profit , considering he had bought them from someone facing criminal charges , and desperate for cash .
5 She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano .
6 Mr O'Donnell was then repeatedly beaten , burned with a cigarette , and had a car driven over his legs before the men attempted to hang him at an Argyll quarry , the court heard .
7 Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence .
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