Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 2 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 3 | But they were waiting and , into a pause , he mentioned that he 'd met them over at Jimmy 's . |
| 4 | As for Eliot himself , he seemed to make himself absolutely at home , as he usually did in a small gathering , and he swung his leg over the arm of the comfortable chair , where it reposed throughout the visit . |
| 5 | I went to pick them up at D'Amicos at eight . |
| 6 | He remembered surprising her once at work . |
| 7 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 8 | Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word . |
| 9 | He had seen her briefly at breakfast and she had n't seemed disturbed about anything . |
| 10 | Woodward , the MI5 man , had watched him closely at Northolt . |
| 11 | A time out procedure had been discussed with the parents and they had used it unsuccessfully at home . |
| 12 | By the time they had reached Morocco , the Shah and the Queen both believed that Giscard had betrayed them personally at Guadeloupe . |
| 13 | A diver had found it out at sea trapped beneath the underground storage container from a petrol station , the container having been ripped right out of the ground . |
| 14 | Alain had walked all over her excuses and her call to Glyn had left her quite at Alain 's mercy — not that he knew it . |
| 15 | Just before the end of term she had strained her back at college . |