Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Jibuti my father crossed to Aden and then went to Cairo to confer with Sir Reginald Wingate , the High Commissioner , while we went to Berbera to stay with Geoffrey Archer , the Commissioner in British Somaliland ; he and his wife had stayed with us at the Legation for Zauditu 's coronation in February . |
| 2 | We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name . |
| 3 | It was nearly as tall an order as Eva 's father had set before her at the beginning of her life . |
| 4 | That much Miguel had volunteered to her at an early stage . |
| 5 | After his death his wife Mary wrote that the idea of symbolising logic had occurred to him at the age of 17 ( Leibniz had had similar but less developed ideas as early as 1666 ) , but several subsequent writers ( see [ 96 , p. 235 ] ) have indicated that Boole 's work on the calculus of operations in the early 1840s must have at least influenced his approach if not actually initiated it . |
| 6 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 7 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |
| 8 | Ever since my mother had explained to me at Culloden Moor long ago that the English and the Scots were different peoples , I had been intensely proud of my Scottish origins and of Scotland 's history as an independent nation . |