Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met Veronica at the Anglo-Catholic church in putney — St Mark 's . |
| 2 | When the German officer began to shout abuse at the Poles , this goat leant out of his window and shouted abuse at the German officer . |
| 3 | But , within 60 seconds , the visitors opened the scoring when former International , Niall Sturrock , beat Larmour at the second attempt with a well placed lob after a poor clearance by Nicky Blease had produced the initial chance . |
| 4 | He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill . |
| 5 | She went out and found Jack at the nursing station with Jake Hunter , the obs and gynae senior registrar . |
| 6 | ‘ Look here ! ’ exclaimed Peter at the same moment . |
| 7 | County were beaten 3–1 , but the omens did not look favourable when the Town 's mascot , a stuffed donkey , caught fire at the post-match celebration . |
| 8 | A former Armed Forces Minister , Maj. Umaru Djalo , who had served under President Luis de Almeida Cabral , who had been overthrown in 1980 by the coup bringing President Joao Bernardo Vieira to power , sought asylum at the same time . |
| 9 | Paul Davies , 19 , admitted manslaughter at the Old Bailey in February . |
| 10 | Isabella Stewart Gardner met Zorn at the Columbian Exhibition , Chicago , in 1893 , where she purchased ‘ The Omnibus ’ , one of his most celebrated paintings . |
| 11 | ‘ Time is a luxury that Bell Resources may well not have , ’ he told shareholders at the annual meeting in Perth . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid this tunic is a little on the tight side , ’ she told Marianne at the first fitting of her costume , after tugging ineffectually at the zip on the shimmery silver material . |
| 13 | Yanto recalled talk at the Blue Boar about recent good runs of fish and was full of anticipation as he carefully picked his way across one of the rock bridges . |
| 14 | In 1963 ‘ there were some very unpleasant moments ’ , he told journalists at the Soviet Culture Foundation . |
| 15 | Then I went over to the vice-president 's mansion and played tennis at the naval observatory in Washington a bunch of times . |
| 16 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 17 | A group of tattered watermen muttered abuse at the frozen river and cursed the great frost which had taken their livelihood from them . |
| 18 | He told Bowe at the final press conference : ‘ You may well get lucky and catch Holyfield with a good shot . |
| 19 | The profession should stop being so defensive , he told participants at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference in St Andrews last month . |
| 20 | But his comments caused outrage at the Civic Theatre where the director , Mr Bryan Goddard , took the unprecedented step of taking out an advert to counter the claims . |
| 21 | Jeanne Hébuterne studied art at the Academi Colarossi and the École des Arts Décoratifs where she met the sculptor , Chana Orloff , who claimed to have introduced Modigliani to Jeanne . |
| 22 | As deputy Speaker Michael Morris told MPs at the first sitting of the line-by-line committee stage in January : ‘ I must emphasise that this bill does not ratify the treaty ; it makes changes in domestic law consequential upon the treaty . ’ |
| 23 | Too often it was not open because social workers were at meetings , he told members at the twenty-fifth AGM . |
| 24 | Lydia Lopokova ( 1891-1981 ) studied ballet at the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg , joined the Diaghilev Company in 1910 and remained with it until it was disbanded in 1929 . |
| 25 | Then I noticed Alec at the other end of the bench . |
| 26 | The joint between the end of the dock and the standing work of the bay end is preferably a direct butt joint between suitable packed or faced surfaces at the leading following and bottom sides of the dock which close simultaneously by a direct butting , as distinguished from a sliding , motion against corresponding surfaces on the standing work . |
| 27 | Britain has not yet received any formal demand for the extradition of the demonstrators who threw bricks at the Iranian embassy in London and smashed windows . |
| 28 | With Minton 's help he obtained work at the Royal College as an artist 's model until he decided to return home where his future was secured for him through marriage and the management of a pub . |
| 29 | They cheered , and threw bread at the haggard Frenchman . |
| 30 | If you died with assets worth more than 140,000 in 1991/2 you paid tax at the full rate . |