Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that her son was a great friend of the paraquat-wielding monk I had seen at the monastery farm near Roscrea . |
| 2 | No doubt their slowness , coupled with the initial inertia of the judges , meant that the exhibition had to remain intact , seriously hampering preparations for the exhibition of models for the Wellington monument which began to arrive at the hall the day after the Government Offices exhibition closed . |
| 3 | As we waited for the lights to change I noticed a sleek white sports car which had stopped at the foot of the church steps to take in a passenger . |
| 4 | Richard 's brother Charles told stories about the creatures that lived around the black loch which lay hidden at the mountain 's crest . |
| 5 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 6 | This particular America 's cup bears no comparison to the trophy they failed to capture at The Belfry . |
| 7 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 8 | Instead , her stubborn mind persisted in remembering the unexpectedly lighter side he had shown at the inn . |
| 9 | His heart danced with pleasure in his chest and all the fear he had experienced at the station turned to joy . |
| 10 | Nestorius himself had studied at the theological school of Antioch , where his mentor was a man known as Theodore of Mopsuestia . |
| 11 | One question I did ask at the Fire and Public Protection Committees what happens when you do n't , when we bring in a unity authority status . |
| 12 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 13 | She remembered again the scene she had recalled at the clinic . |
| 14 | She heard the break before she actually saw the child who had fallen at the winning end of a tug-of-war rope . |
| 15 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 16 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 17 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 18 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 19 | For the first two minutes Charlie defended himself well , using the ropes and the corner as he ducked and dived , remembering every skill he had learned at the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 20 | He spoke English with a Texan drawl he had acquired at the University of Austin . |
| 21 | He looked up quickly and there , half silhouetted in the twilight , stood the wiry , curly-haired boy he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 22 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 23 | In fact , everybody seemed to be busy finding some job to help with the war effort , except Mum who continued to clean at the Gingold 's chip shop . |
| 24 | It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it . |
| 25 | Another strand of the hostage crisis which remained deadlocked at the end of December was the issue of missing Israeli servicemen in Lebanon . |
| 26 | In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up . |
| 27 | Moreover , given the striking similarity between the seasons , octagonal arrangement from Chedworth and mosaic H from Woodchester ( Smith 1969 , 101 ) , it seems almost certain that the seasons mosaic was the product of craftsman who had worked at the latter site . |
| 28 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
| 29 | Mona had recovered from whatever embarrassment she had felt at the Eliot knife becoming common knowledge , and said crisply : ‘ I ca n't believe that 's true about Pascoe , Alex . ’ |
| 30 | An Asian teacher who had taught at the school for six years stated : |