Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You know , cos I 'd got it at a P P C as well , for national conference . |
2 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
3 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
4 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
5 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |
6 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
7 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
8 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
9 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
10 | The Bosnian Serb parliament rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan even though its leader , Radovan Karadjic , had signed it at a peace conference in Athens . |