Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién .
2 With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword .
3 Malcolm Crosby 's men will be trying to make their survival mathematically certain against Swindon tonight , and if they can produce the gritty determination they showed at the Goldstone Ground and eradicate silly defensive errors any lingering doubts should soon be over .
4 There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round .
5 Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year .
6 The next day he appeared at the Uxbridge Magistrates ’ Court where he admitted having the drug in his possession .
7 Last month we looked at the Dorian , Aeolian , Locrian , Melodic and Harmonic Minor scales ; today I 'd like to look at other minor scales which are widely used in today 's music .
8 For a week they stayed at the Lime Street cottage , where Sara was already doubting the wisdom of taking part in the German expedition .
9 On the morning of Sunday 27 August they arrived at the Friedrichstrasse Station in the heart of the German capital .
10 Is that what she was like ? ’ and all I could do was say well , no , not at all … but that was the licence you got at the NME , because the most important word in the paper is I . ’
11 It was certainly not the sort of thing you did at the BBC .
12 Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’
13 Easy on the whisky — there is not much left after the great crack we had at the McLaggans ’ .
14 But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown !
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