Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 2 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 3 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 4 | When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance . |
| 5 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 6 | The ruling DEMOS coalition dissolved itself at a meeting on Dec. 30 , and called for early elections in April or May 1992 . |
| 7 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 8 | Tero followed them at a distance , watching her new friend with sorrowful anxious eyes . |
| 9 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
| 10 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 11 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 12 | A WOMAN flung herself at a mugger and bit off his right ear when he snatched her bag in Milan . |
| 13 | ‘ No , his analyst told me at a party in New York . ’ |
| 14 | " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine . |
| 15 | Although my work as CBC Production Manager kept me at a desk rather than on the production floor , I was occasionally able to produce plays . |
| 16 | The girl in the mack was scrambling again through the puddles in the dirt of the wreckers ' yard ; the invisible and soundless shots from out of frame felled her at a signal from Jean-Claude and the partisans rose from the auto hulks , their own guns blazing . |
| 17 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 18 | The man in charge of the investigation , Supt Stan Fletcher , said : ‘ Local police in Newcastle arrested him at a hotel last night . |
| 19 | Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey . |