Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 2 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 3 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 4 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | An elderly female novelist had come in at a quarter to six and Penelope had found herself trying to explain why her latest novel had not been reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph , why it had not been advertised more widely , why copies had not been displayed on the bookstall of a friend 's local station , why it had not yet been reprinted . |
| 19 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 20 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 21 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 22 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 23 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 24 | Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts . |
| 25 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 26 | But he was the same , odd man , who had hung about at the church in boots at Faith Lavender 's funeral . |
| 27 | What was it Graham had said back at the Windorah about Barak ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But there was qualifying joy for other athletes who had missed out at the county championships , including Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harrier Stephen Helm . |