Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 2 | Pulling off her bright headscarf , tossing off her jacket , she threw off apologies at the same time . |
| 3 | Having begun their Courage First Division programme with a 29-12 home win over Leicester , Wasps then lost direction and the match when they took on Harlequins at The Stoop . |
| 4 | In the hour before dawn , when the pulsar had risen above the horizon and the sky was still dark , they picked up pulsations at the correct rate — and , as confirmation , found them again the following morning . |
| 5 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 6 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 7 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 8 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 9 | We 'll get that bloke what trained Mickey Pearce 's dog when it won over hurdles at the 'Stow . |
| 10 | The extension of the LFA has left this gross anomaly unaffected since it brings in land at the lower elevations outside the original LFA boundary . |
| 11 | The other five he spread out flat at the bottom of the executive case . |