Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cecil King behaved liked a baron at the Daily Mirror in the 1960s , scolding the Wilson government and toying with the idea of political office . |
| 2 | So serene , in fact , that after we 'd had a meal at the bungalow and a few drinks my mother did something she 'd never done before . |
| 3 | They 'd misjudged a fence at the Tythrop Park horse trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire . |
| 4 | Nobody appeared to show the least surprise when Charles appeared in Service Dress after his servant had arranged a room at the farm for the change and a hot water wash after a little light work on the trench system , trenches that bore every resemblance to those he had seen and read about as constructed in the First War . |
| 5 | Youths rioted for two nights on the streets of Telford in the Midlands after police marksmen shot dead Ian Gordon early on Aug. 12 ; the 24-year-old black man , who had a history of psychiatric problems , had pointed a firearm at the policemen ; two witnesses were reported to have told police that the gun was unloaded and had no firing mechanism . |
| 6 | He had booked a table at the best restaurant in Auckland . |
| 7 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 8 | The dramatic revelations soured the victory celebrations of John Major , who had claimed a triumph at the Edinburgh European summit . |
| 9 | He had claimed a silver at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and later that winter helped Western Australia add to their tally of Sheffield Shield triumphs . |
| 10 | He would say he had met a friend at the wine bar and gone on somewhere and found it too late to get back . |
| 11 | All those affected had attended a function at the restaurant . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings . |
| 13 | Rufus put the receiver back , feeling a clutch at his stomach as if a hard hand had made a grab at the muscles . |
| 14 | Pauline had made a reservation at the Waterside Café in Bridgetown for 12.30 . |
| 15 | He had built a studio at the foot of the garden connected to the house by a covered pathway and the general collections of the Survey were housed in the studio . |
| 16 | Germany had become a republic at the end of the Great War , and in 1925 Hindenberg became the President of that republic . |
| 17 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 18 | The ban was imposed by Minister of Home Affairs William Craig after the Apprentice Boys of Derry had announced a procession at the same time and over the same route as the civil rights march . |
| 19 | Britain , said Mr Delors , had struck a deal at the Edinburgh Summit , promising to contribute £100 million towards the £400 million cost of the ‘ super TV ’ . |
| 20 | To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz . |
| 21 | No , nobody had left a car at the bottom of this hill , and , yes , everybody was looking to cadge a lift . |
| 22 | My mother told me once that on November the fifth someone in the audience had thrown a firework at the screen and the people in the film jumped . |
| 23 | Madame Butterfly , he thought , for he had sneaked a glance at the soldier opposite and seen that he was now weeping , the letter crumpled in his fist , scrunching apple blossom . |
| 24 | He grew flowers on the graves : last winter he had started a cemetery at the bottom of the garden and stuck in a big cross for a sign . |
| 25 | that at the time of the loss or damage he or she had taken a room at the inn ; and |
| 26 | On the day the King died , just before dusk , an unknown messenger had delivered a letter at the gate . |
| 27 | Sid had chosen a spot at the top of the orchard a few yards from the wall surrounding Brigade H.Q ‘ We can have two trenches with one entrance , ’ he said , ‘ Your trench there , and my trench here , ’ drawing a diagram with the point of his bayonet . |
| 28 | She said a woman had planted a bomb at the base , which houses the Royal Logistics Corps . |