Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hollyoake lived at the house in Belper , Derbys , with her husband and their 16-year-old daughter . |
| 2 | Florrie gazed at the letter in her hands . |
| 3 | Nassim winced at the sound of breaking glass from the bathroom , but it was only the remaining splinters of the old stuff coming down . |
| 4 | Pascoe peered at the drink before putting the glass to his lips , as if drinking it at all was a risky thing . |
| 5 | Ceauşescu admitted at the beginning of the 1980s that it was easier to change the economy and society than people themselves : ‘ As you can see , we have had an easy time constructing factories . |
| 6 | Meredith trembled at the tenderness in his tone . |
| 7 | UCG rallied at the beginning of the second half , Lorcan Dowd scoring a great goal , and Tony Maher then cutting the deficit to two points . |
| 8 | Dr Murdoch studied at the University of Exeter and at Jesus College , Cambridge . |
| 9 | Ramsey arrived at the university in October 1923 . |
| 10 | The Glasgow Hilton opened at the end of 1992 |
| 11 | Shiona frowned at the phone in total bewilderment . |
| 12 | Martin Brundle arrived at the circuit with a mint-fresh six-litre Jaguar XJR-S on load for the day from Tom Walkinshaw Racing , a company connected with the Benetton F1 team for which Brundle is driving this season . |
| 13 | However , Gorbachev arrived at the plenum with his political standing newly boosted by the surprise announcement of the pact with Yeltsin and the other republican leaders [ see above ] , and this appeared to play a decisive role in the motion 's defeat . |
| 14 | Madge glanced at the envelope on the mantelpiece . |
| 15 | Zach glanced at the clock on the bookcase and stood up . |
| 16 | Rex glanced at the image on the wall . |
| 17 | But Edward had lost interest in easy conquests for the present , and Erica hinted at the ending of an affair when she had left the States . |
| 18 | If one is inclined , as one may well be , to doubt the validity of sets of distinctions of the kind I 've just made , they are at least based on a separation which Proust placed at the centre of his own critical theory . |
| 19 | The port of Ventspils lay at the end of a pipeline which brought Siberian oil for export , providing one-third of Soviet hard-currency income . |
| 20 | Bravd looked at the shape on the road . |
| 21 | Scott looked at the clock on the dashboard of the Lancia and sighed . |
| 22 | Overwhelmed by not having noticed this earlier , by his failure of politeness , observation and helpfulness , all that had been taught him from boyhood up , Richard proceeded at the double onto the Embankment , to escort her on to Lord Jim . |
| 23 | Trade relations between Japan and the United States improved at the start of April as the so-called " Structural Impediments Initiative " ( SII ) talks [ see p. 37319 ] produced an agreement by the two sides on a number of the outstanding points of conflict . |
| 24 | Edward appeared at the door of his study as soon as he heard her key in the door . |
| 25 | Instead of attending the meeting a dissident group of members led by Chandra Shekhar convened at the home of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal . |
| 26 | It is the more remarkable that Pound , no more than any one else for fifty years after Hardy died , pondered the Virgilian epigraph that Hardy put at the head of his ‘ Poems of 1912–13 ’ , originally in Satires of Circumstance , ( London , 1914 ) . |
| 27 | It would be helpful to consider what Dr Slabbert said at the conference in Johannesburg on August 2 , 1991 , namely that the Department of National Health has the capacity to deal with major health problems . |
| 28 | Willie and Zach waited at the foot of the ladder while Sammy scrabbled around the first rung . |
| 29 | Donna paused at the bottom of the flight of steps and looked to her right and left . |
| 30 | Hoping to lay to rest the hare started by an interview given to the Wall Street Journal by a top Siemens AG staffer , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig said at the opening of the Cebit Hannover Fair yesterday that his company had no plans for a strategic link with another computer company . |