Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |
| 2 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 3 | He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill . |
| 4 | Britain has not yet received any formal demand for the extradition of the demonstrators who threw bricks at the Iranian embassy in London and smashed windows . |
| 5 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 6 | We had questions at the very beginning of this meeting which seems an awful long time ago now er asking for youth provision in other areas of the county . |
| 7 | In particular , though I noted that the farmers distinguished between different scientific sources , they credited scientists at the local Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Merlewood with more openness about the scientific uncertainties . |
| 8 | ‘ Time is a luxury that Bell Resources may well not have , ’ he told shareholders at the annual meeting in Perth . |
| 9 | In 1963 ‘ there were some very unpleasant moments ’ , he told journalists at the Soviet Culture Foundation . |
| 10 | The profession should stop being so defensive , he told participants at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference in St Andrews last month . |