Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand .
2 She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’
3 After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed .
4 The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women .
5 One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been .
6 It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end .
7 The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room .
8 A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal .
9 When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out .
10 There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property .
11 They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table .
12 Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away .
13 He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover .
14 He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel .
15 Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading .
16 The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible .
17 But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral .
18 What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ?
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 But there was qualifying joy for other athletes who had missed out at the county championships , including Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier Stephen Helm .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend .
26 She had called in at the office once since she left and had been greeted with pleasure .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 By the time he had arrived back at the Hotel Colombi he had decided .
30 The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 .
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