Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SPAIN , who qualified at the expense of their fellow Iberians , Portugal ( withdrawn ) , are captained by winger Jaime Gutierrez and include several players from the senior squad ; while JAPAN feature , among a host of World Cup players , the electric winger Yoshihito Yoshida , of Meiji University , who played for the World XV in the Centenary series against New Zealand . |
| 2 | LEFT : William Dick , who qualified at the College in 1817 and founded his own school in Edinburgh in 1823 . |
| 3 | On The Poultry Cross side of this was The Westminster Bank , on the other facing the Market , Singer Sewing Machines , and on the same side facing Minster Street , The London and Counties Clothing Company , a rather high sounding name for a not very large Men 's Outfitters , owned and run by Mr. Selway who lived at the corner of Milford Hill/Rampart Road with his mother . |
| 4 | At a nearby door , half in the house and half out of the house , they found the body of her boyfriend , Jamie Saunders , who was 22 and who lived at the house with his mother . |
| 5 | Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said the couple , who lived at the house in Brankin Road , Darlington , had forgotten to shut the front door when they went to bed that night . |
| 6 | It was also a first success for the drivers in the race and a particular personal triumph for ex-Formula One driver Warwick , who failed at the track with Jaguar in 1986 and 1991 . |
| 7 | Big Irish Tom had pulled down his shorts and grabbed his willy to show everyone that he was truly a boy and not some soppy little girl who fainted at the sight of turkey innards . |
| 8 | A sense of alarm prompted her to knock again , more loudly , and this time the door was thrust open by an elegant though plainly dressed young woman who winced at the sound of breaking glass , coming from somewhere behind her . |
| 9 | Alan Duffy had overheard Mr Simmons and Miss Craven talking about Frankie 's father , who was a real-life American who had been in the Army and the merchant navy and was now a farmer who posed at the School of Art and played guitar in a popular local dance-band . |
| 10 | In Scottish legal history he is remembered also as the Judge who presided at the trial of Burke and Hare , the Edinburgh body-snatchers who turned to murder . |
| 11 | WREXHAM manager Brian Flynn has thrown down the gauntlet to much-travelled striker Howard Gayle , who trained at the Racecourse for the first time yesterday . |
| 12 | Lisnagarvey were also in good nick , Dan Clarke ( 2 ) , Brian Waring , Jimmy Kirkwood and Peter Richardson on target in a 5-0 at Mossley which signalled a triumphant return for new boy Craig McGrugan , who played at the heart of the Garvey defence . |
| 13 | Good work by Martin Strutt supported by Stephen McKinty led to a scrum on the Banbridge line and when they failed to clear Michael Long made good ground down the right touch line before slipping the ball inside to full back Mark Tinman who scored at the corner after seven minutes . |
| 14 | A Staffordshire University graduate is organising a reunion for ceramics students who studied at the centre in 1965 when it was North Staffordshire College of Technology . |
| 15 | One of the authors once taught a class who applauded at the end of classes they enjoyed . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to run competitions offering a free T-shirt to the first person who arrived at the station with a burger and chips . |
| 17 | Firemen who arrived at the house in Bath , Avon , after answering the hoax failed to revive him and he died in hospital . |
| 18 | But without doubt the most contentious defector to reach the West was Anatoli Golitsin , who arrived at the office of the CIA 's station chief in Helsinki in Finland in December 1911 and asked for asylum for himself , his wife and daughter . |
| 19 | With high turn outs in Labour 's Middlesbrough heartlands such as Whinney Banks ( 75pc ) and Brookfield ( 82pc ) , and in Stockton 's Parkfield ( 80pc ) , it was a buoyant Labour candidate John Scott , who arrived at the count at Thornaby Pavilion . |
| 20 | The United States Secretary of State James Baker , who arrived at the close of the summit , proposed that aid to the region could be modelled on the G-24 financing plan for Poland and Hungary agreed in December 1989 [ see p. 37130 ] , in which the US would share the burden for economic reconstruction with the European Communities , Canada and Japan . |
| 21 | Samuel Drew , who began at the age of eight in 1773 for 1½d ( 0.6p ) a day , was later apprenticed to a shoe maker , while Harry Carter , born in 1749 , left the mines at the age of sixteen for the more exciting career of smuggling . |
| 22 | Among the clerics who swept through the courtyard was Dr Ahmad Najafi , a 33-year-old scholar and trained doctor who served at the front during the war against Iraq . |
| 23 | The pungent AOR rockisms of ‘ Alive And Kicking ’ , the clod-footed thump of ‘ Sanctify Yourself ’ and the messiness of ‘ All The Things She Said ’ , coupled with wilfully obtuse witterings by Jim Kerr , will still wind up anyone who marvelled at the loneliness at the centre of ‘ Someone , Somewhere In Summertime ’ or the wistful catchiness of ‘ Promised You A Miracle ’ , the Euro-disco made flesh on ‘ The American ’ or even the neon womb-glow of the recent ‘ See The Lights ’ . |
| 24 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 25 | An inquest heard that a teenage neighbour , John Robson , who called at the house in Essex Close , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , was unable to get an reply . |
| 26 | Eight years later , punk rockers with honours degrees were going to concerts by The Jesus and Mary Chain — married to girls who worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art , or living with men who created ( or deconstructed ) advertising campaigns . |
| 27 | Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car . |
| 28 | Laurie Smith , who worked at the forge from 1936 until its closure , has arranged this year 's reunion at The Cottage , alongside The Freemasons ' Hall , in Archer Street , Darlington . |
| 29 | Modern sociology is usually thought to have its roots in the work of classical sociologists who worked at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 30 | In a way this was her debut , in front of the full team of soloists , in front of Gesner , who lounged at the side of the stage talking to Alfred . |