Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Cook , the new Professional , joined in April 1986 coming from South Africa where he partnered Gary Player at the Sun City Golf Club . |
| 2 | Edward turned up late for their rendezvous , and found Foley standing at the bar with a much younger man who had a long , intelligent face and a quiet manner , whom he introduced as Harold Philby , known as Kim . |
| 3 | ‘ Go away ! ’ shouted Mr Crick at the cock . |
| 4 | ‘ Friends , Romans , countrymen , ’ shouted Fred Stokes at the top of the Forum steps , carrying Arthur Moe in his arms centre stage . |
| 5 | On his way home he again visited Mrs Wood at the hotel . |
| 6 | Dashing into the kitchen now , she found Jessie standing at the table and squeezing a lemon into a glass and she had almost pulled her from the table towards the door before she managed to say to her , ‘ He 's … he 's downstairs in the yard . |
| 7 | In 1689 they defeated government forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie but Graham was killed and soon afterwards the rebel army was defeated at Dunkeld and the uprising ended . |
| 8 | However , the visitors caught Quakers cold at the restart when a right wing free kick was floated in for Ronnie Jepson to nip ahead of his marker and stab the ball past Prudhoe . |
| 9 | Four Russian bakers visited Calcot Savacentre at the beginning of May as part of a fact-finding tour to help develop the market economy in russia . |
| 10 | The most notable example of this occurred in the county in 1264 , when the troops of Simon de Montfort defeated Henry Ill at the Battle of Lewes . |
| 11 | Michael attended Easter Mass in Bucharest , and visited family tombs at the monastery in Curtea de Arges in western Romania . |
| 12 | You all learned to swim and dive at the Kokine Swimming Club , and you and Mig became Girl Guides at the school . |
| 13 | When I first met Christopher Pilkington at the Centre I had no idea he was a priest and remember asking if he was the healer as one might question a plumber 's identity . |
| 14 | Even the thought of lunch at Osborne House again tomorrow did n't seem too bad an idea , even if it did mean listening to Mama telling him how she heard nightingales in the garden at Pierremont House and how she walked all the way to Pegwell when she was twelve and ate shrimp paste at the Bellevue Tavern . |
| 15 | Wary troopers directed stun guns at the medley of bodies in case of disorder , for there were tensions and animosities . |
| 16 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 17 | Alexandre Dumas ate bear steak at the Hôtel de la Poste , Marigny , in 1832 ; later , in his Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine ( 1870 ) , he noted that ‘ Bear meat is now eaten by all the peoples of Europe ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Singleton advised Sergeant Joe at the beginning to be careful about envelopes . |
| 19 | He imagined Donald listening at the top of the stairs . |
| 20 | I told Mr Miller at the pet shop I 'd be there soon after surgery . ’ |
| 21 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 22 | Her brother , Mohammed Bhatti , 33 , told Lord Osborne at the Court of Session yesterday : ‘ My family and sister are the victim of some sort of fraud . |
| 23 | I ca n't give you reduced cost advice at the moment but it may be that in two or three weeks ' time your s situation has changed to the extent where I can . |
| 24 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 25 | ‘ And your servant , Captain Meredith ? ’ asked Mr Spriggs at the end of all this . |
| 26 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 27 | Last November he trounced Mr Wilson at the ballot box , both defeating a budget initiative sponsored by the governor and increasing the number of Democrat assemblymen . |
| 28 | A large studio shot showed Euturpia Kennedy at the age when I first met her , shy hope not yet driven from her eyes . |
| 29 | Just as the enthronement of the dollar at the centre of the world 's monetary system symbolized US dominance at the end of the war , so the weakening of the dollar was to symbolize the erosion of that power . |
| 30 | The suspension tarnished the day for the Irishman who joined Peter Scudamore at the top of the jockeys ' table mark after landing a double . |