Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 32 | Old Lillian Tibbs had done well at the Market . |
| 33 | It was a Saturday night in February , and Jonathon Blagrave had done well at the town 's market . |
| 34 | ‘ I think she had done enough at the end and it was beginning to hurt , ’ Elsworth said . |
| 35 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 36 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 37 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 38 | David Arthur , 18 , of Blackstoun Avenue , Linwood , Renfrewshire , claimed during a trial that he had lashed out at the victim , Greig Mooney , 18 , with a broken umbrella he had found discarded in the street . |
| 39 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 40 | But there was qualifying joy for other athletes who had missed out at the county championships , including Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier Stephen Helm . |
| 41 | A pauper named Garratt had died suddenly at the lunatic asylum in Ampthill Road . |
| 42 | As usual , Dexter judged that Blanche — despite her misgivings — had performed well at the press conference , providing enough information to keep the newspapers happy without compromising the investigation . |
| 43 | Then , with confirmation from the counts that their political mouthpiece had performed splendidly at the polls , they turned on Portadown . |
| 44 | She had thought so at the time . |
| 45 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 46 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 47 | The boulders which God had flung about at the time of the creation had , to Lydia 's eyes , a patriarchal air , and the pebbles which littered the stream seemed like little children confidently at rest in this fatherly presence . |
| 48 | Figures released in January 1990 showed that growth had slowed sharply at the end of 1989 . |
| 49 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 50 | She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure . |
| 51 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 52 | Expedition organisers confirmed the two men had arrived safely at the Patriot Hills base on the Chilean side of the Antarctic after being picked up by a rescue plane . |
| 53 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 54 | By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided . |
| 55 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 56 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 57 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 58 | But he had swung round at the sound of a vehicle approaching . |
| 59 | But time and tide and neglect had eaten away at the structure so that even at low tide , with the slabs fully exposed , crossing would be tricky . |
| 60 | The porter , whom he had swept past at the entrance to the close , hurried up , his peaked cap rattling to and fro on his small head . |