Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived at the Cheshire Cheese early deliberately — to spy out the land … ’ |
| 2 | When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest . |
| 3 | I taught at the London School of Economics , I was head of the department at the University of Essex in which you were an undergraduate , and was in fact your personal tutor . |
| 4 | I worked at the London Palace Hotel as a chambermaid for three years . |
| 5 | Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer . |
| 6 | One of the sellers was Nairn ladies ' guild , who had been given the plate to sell for the guild 's funds , and this was the one I bought at the Bradford Exchange price . |
| 7 | I stayed at the Columba Hotel , just near the quay . |
| 8 | you met at the Eskdale party two years ago |
| 9 | Dressed in an embroidered , peasant blouse from Oxfam and a frilly skirt , she stabbed at the Turkey carpet with her stiletto heels sending up little whorls of dust and leaving pockmarks in her wake . |
| 10 | Knowing she had to support herself , they paid her while she trained at the Manchester school . |
| 11 | From 1861 to 1863 she studied at the Kensington School of Art . |
| 12 | She studied at the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women , and then at University College , Aberystwyth , and at the extramural School of Medicine for Women , Edinburgh . |
| 13 | It is likely that Alison Wilding will capture the fancy of pundits and punters , as much for her surprising omission from last year 's highly controversial short-list ( see The Art Newspaper No.12 , November 1991 , p.3 ) , as for the quality of the work which she showed at the Tate Gallery , Liverpool , and the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Dean Clough , Halifax , the two exhibitions which secured her nomination . |
| 14 | From 1976 to 1981 she worked at the Henley Centre for Forecasting , where she was responsible for UK economics forecasts , and manager of special studies . |
| 15 | Her Royal Highness has also highlighted the R Y A year of youth sailing which she launched at the Earls Court Boat Show . |
| 16 | She stayed at the Xenias Melathron , a little old hotel that has since been pulled down , but has an after-life in her story ‘ The Voices ’ , to which the amusing waiter Polycarp , who brought her breakfast to her , also contributed . |
| 17 | When we met at the Bacon show and I smiled at him he smiled back at once , then remembered and tried to scowl , but could n't and we both burst out laughing . |
| 18 | We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods . |
| 19 | No one answered when we called at the Manor House , which is at the end of a long secluded drive overlooking the estate . |
| 20 | In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang . |
| 21 | I stayed like that for the minute or so we waited at the Lochgair station platform , and did n't stir again — yawning convincingly for any other passengers who might be watching — until we were crossing the viaduct at Succothmore . |
| 22 | We stayed at the Britannia Hotel , Portland Street , Manchester ( 061 228 2288 ) . |
| 23 | They stopped at the Zebra Crossing and Pete watched the big lorries and buses and cars roar past . |
| 24 | On the morning of Sunday 27 August they arrived at the Friedrichstrasse Station in the heart of the German capital . |
| 25 | Malcolm Crosby 's men will be trying to make their survival mathematically certain against Swindon tonight , and if they can produce the gritty determination they showed at the Goldstone Ground and eradicate silly defensive errors any lingering doubts should soon be over . |
| 26 | They threw everything they had at the Swindon goal , but Hammond stopped the lot . |
| 27 | They stayed at the Carlton Hotel , the best in town , and Cecily Robinson was astonished by her first sight of John , who arrived for dinner with a leg-warmer he was knitting , much to the amusement of all the other diners . |
| 28 | It met at the Swan Inn , Bedford on July 22nd 1801 ; the funds included £1,914.4s.0d. in donations and £297.3s.0d. in annual subscriptions . |
| 29 | Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show . |
| 30 | He studied at the London Hospital and Aldersgate School of Medicine . |