Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 2 | Half an hour later , he went into the Lights of Lisbon and sat at the bar . |
| 3 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 4 | This was originally contemporaneous with the experiments of Premack and began at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Centre of Emory University in Georgia . |
| 5 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 6 | Frau Nordern blew out a voluptuous stream of smoke and looked at the man who suddenly became extremely interested in his herring Bismarck . |
| 7 | The Frenchwoman who ran the hotel came in with a crowd of people and sat at the only other table . |
| 8 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |
| 9 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |
| 10 | His colleague walked behind Jenkins and tugged at the rope binding his wrists . |
| 11 | He came up behind Alice and looked at the Cat 's head in surprise . |
| 12 | Isabel wrenched her eyes away from fitzAlan and glared at the wall . |
| 13 | One of these , the king 's younger son Louis Duke of Anjou , broke his word and returned to France , at which King John , showing a misplaced sense of honour , returned voluntarily to captivity in England and died at the Savoy in April 1364 . |
| 14 | He eventually settled in Paris and died at the early age of 45 , in 1792 . |
| 15 | Horne heard a sound , jumped up in terror and stared at the apparition just next to the old wall . |
| 16 | Refreshed , I went up on deck and looked at the waves . |
| 17 | The row about Catholicism got her out of the house and carried her through two euphoric days , during which she thought about the Trinity , existed on lollipops and stared at the Celebration of the Mass from the back of Westminster Cathedral . |
| 18 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 19 | She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead . |
| 20 | The speciality of the house was fillet of reindeer with wild mushrooms , the Scandinavian equivalent of our venison but we settled for Chateaubriand , cooked to perfection and served at the table by the charming Italian head waiter , Paolo whose efficient and attentive service enhanced the evening . |
| 21 | I yearned for Laurie and raged at the injustice of Jo 's making do with the elderly Professor Behr , unconvinced by the book 's insistence that she was happy . |
| 22 | Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down . |
| 23 | Then he was offered the chance to be artist in residence at Slimbridge and jumped at the chance to stage his own exhibition . |