Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 2 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
| 3 | Clocaenog village he left at a distance on his left hand , and wound his way up into the hills again . |
| 4 | A STREET busker who told a jury he shared Madonna 's views on sex was convicted yesterday of raping a 19-year-old girl he seized at a bus stop . |
| 5 | Part of my later training had been at the hands of an ex-SAS instructor whose absolute priority for survival was evading the enemy ; and with doubt but also awareness of danger I guessed at an enemy above our heads , not a saviour . |
| 6 | You might think you 're safe nipping out for a hill-walk in a Parka with nylon fur round the hood , and a pair of trawlerman 's oilskin trousers you bought at a life-boat fund-raising stall , but that 's the day you 'll bump into Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert with a film crew making Highlander 3 . |
| 7 | The Woman was sitting round to the right , beside a television , and as soon as she saw Tug she waved at a chair . |
| 8 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 9 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 10 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 11 | On the third night they stopped at an inn which was attached to a relay station . |
| 12 | On one occasion he kicked at a fence which was enclosing a footpath , saying ' I have no respect for the Whigs , but I have a good deal of the Chartist in me' . |
| 13 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 14 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 15 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 16 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 17 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues . |
| 18 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 19 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 20 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 21 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues . |
| 22 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 23 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 24 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 25 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 26 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 27 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 28 | On a more light-hearted note , a friend of mine had become sexually involved with a woman he met at a party , although he confided that he had niggling doubts about the relationship . |
| 29 | At midday we stopped at a rest-house , a square concrete building by the roadside , the only structure we had seen since leaving Cairo , four hours before . |
| 30 | While at Oxford he taught at a Sunday school in Cowley and a night school at St Frideswide 's church . |