Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] 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 Neil MacDonald looks at the havoc this is creating in a coup-prone land .
7 Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness .
8 Representatives of the Phoenix King arrived at the court of the Emperor of Cathay .
9 Neil Fitzgerald looks at the case for finding a fast-track route for commercial actions .
10 Taken aback , he mentioned the football match to be fought on New Year 's Day between the Repertory company and the pantomime cast of Treasure Island appearing at the Empire .
11 Miss Havisham looked at the fire , and then at me again .
12 David Spiller glances at the newspaper coverage of the Headingley Test
13 In 1879 the eldest daughter to the Rev. Richard Cecil died at the age of 97 .
14 That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . "
15 Miss Harker blinked at the boy , utterly baffled .
16 Senate set up a working party under Professor Furmston , Council asked consultants Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte to look at the matter , convocation set up an ad hoc working group to respond to the first two reports , and the Vice-Chancellor produced a report for Council which drew together the common threads in all three .
17 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 .
18 That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores .
19 As a result , when Richard Baxter arrived at the camp , he was seen as a Royalist sympathiser .
20 Amid these cliches , sly slanders and unavoidable realities , Ann Jones sits at the net and ponders .
21 Amid these cliches , sly slanders and unavoidable realities , Ann Jones sits at the net and ponders .
22 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 .
23 Miss Danziger waited at the place known as Lakeside at St Lund , where small craft poached alongside the road .
24 Guthrie Hepwood sat at the head of the table with Leith seated on his right , and with Naylor next to her .
25 Mrs. Bidwell arrived at the door as the two attendants from the mortuary van were carrying out the body .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 UNITED 'S £1million striker Dion Dublin jumped at the chance to go to Old Trafford Picture : DENNIS HUSSEY
29 Holroyd Smith died at the age of 84 in North Wales , still at work inventing devices to assist in his favourite hobby of angling !
30 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 .
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