Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , Emerson made a superb start but got caught in traffic at the first left-hander . |
| 2 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 3 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 4 | The move came after three councillors from Stanley had resigned in protest at the council 's reversal of a vote to exclude from a £500,000 soil improvement grant farms owned by the Falkland Islands Company , which dominated the economy . |
| 5 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of June 20 , Lin had resigned in protest at the advocation of Taiwanese " separatism " by the party 's vocal New Tide faction . |
| 6 | Kinga , himself a southerner , said that he had resigned in protest at the government 's intention to " Islamicize " the south and also at the " persecution " of " hundreds of thousands of displaced southerners " in the region around Khartoum . |
| 7 | A French radio report of Dec. 15 said that the Education Minister , Muhammad Abdullah al-Jayfi , had resigned in protest at the government 's handling of the economy . |
| 8 | She did not understand how Oliver could be so calm after what he had said about Dad at the end of the party . |
| 9 | The Associated Press news agency reported on May 23 that Hoang Van Hoan , a former member of the CPV politburo who defected to China in 1979 [ see p. 29876 ] , had died in exile at the age of 86 . |
| 10 | She spoke fluent Italian and spent part of each year in Bari , in the south of Italy , where she had lectured in English at the university for ten years . |
| 11 | She had arrived on foot at the Sovereign 's Gate accompanied only by a policeman , after leaving her car in a car park across the road . |
| 12 | Up to 1,000 coalminers had gone on strike at the Valias mine near Tirana ( the capital ) on Jan. 11 . |
| 13 | What had happened in verse at the conclusion of The Waste Land was actually happening : London was being destroyed . |
| 14 | Frances joined us from PMD where she worked in marketing Bullion Products for two years , prior to that she had worked in marketing at the Financial Times . |
| 15 | Allan Stewart had flushed with discomfiture at the defusing of his story . |
| 16 | The two submarines which had lain alongside Omega at the start of her watch now stood off in the loch , still as two sentries , awaiting Taureg 's arrival , and she wondered how any man could volunteer to serve in such a craft ; how he could live in quarters so cramped , with no privacy at all . |
| 17 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |