Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 2 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 3 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 4 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 5 | He says that Murray Johnstone looked at the idea but concluded that : ‘ There did n't seem to be much sense in launching a common investment fund . |
| 6 | Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness . |
| 7 | Representatives of the Phoenix King arrived at the court of the Emperor of Cathay . |
| 8 | Miss Havisham looked at the fire , and then at me again . |
| 9 | In 1879 the eldest daughter to the Rev. Richard Cecil died at the age of 97 . |
| 10 | Miss Harker blinked at the boy , utterly baffled . |
| 11 | On the contrary , as Professor Northcote Parkinson noted at the time , the civil service expanded as never before , locally as well as nationally , and the prominent place of central-government expenditure ( consistently over 40 per cent as a proportion of gross national product in this period ) is an outstanding feature of the period 1951–64 . |
| 12 | That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores . |
| 13 | As a result , when Richard Baxter arrived at the camp , he was seen as a Royalist sympathiser . |
| 14 | Ambrose , with the wind at his back at the southern end from which he had terminated England 's dogged resistance on the last afternoon of the 1990 Test , also had four wickets on the day , completing the latest West Indian triumph at Kensington by having David Richardson caught at the wicket and bowling Allan Donald with successive balls 20 minutes from lunch . |
| 15 | Miss Danziger waited at the place known as Lakeside at St Lund , where small craft poached alongside the road . |
| 16 | Guthrie Hepwood sat at the head of the table with Leith seated on his right , and with Naylor next to her . |
| 17 | Mrs. Bidwell arrived at the door as the two attendants from the mortuary van were carrying out the body . |
| 18 | OLYMPIC high jump champion Heike Henkel leaped at the chance when she was asked to star with top model Naomi Campbell in a fashion shoot . |
| 19 | He strolled through the opening and knocked on a door marked Enquiries , walked in and asked the man behind the counter if they had a Rebecca Salmon registered at the college . |
| 20 | UNITED 'S £1million striker Dion Dublin jumped at the chance to go to Old Trafford Picture : DENNIS HUSSEY |
| 21 | Holroyd Smith died at the age of 84 in North Wales , still at work inventing devices to assist in his favourite hobby of angling ! |
| 22 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 23 | When Dr Mortimer looked at the body , he found that this was , in fact , what had happened . |
| 24 | Nigel Lawson awoke at the start of the Conservative Party conference to find himself described as ‘ This Bankrupt Chancellor ’ on the front page of the Daily Mail . |
| 25 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 26 | Dominic Arnold trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , both in television and at Glasgow 's Citizens ' Theatre . |
| 27 | Liam Devlin sat at the piano in the Lights of Lisbon , a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth , a glass of wine on one side . |
| 28 | MOST people , when they reach the age of 80 , would be enjoying the fruits of retirement but Father Anthony Cunningham jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 29 | Scotland fans crowded at the entrance to Wembley threatening to lynch the Celtic keeper , and in an act of sad resignation , Haffey was forced to hide in a suburban house near the stadium . |
| 30 | Dr Murdoch studied at the University of Exeter and at Jesus College , Cambridge . |