Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Settling himself in one of the big , shabby armchairs , Tug gazed suspiciously at the television screen and waited for a picture to appear . |
| 2 | He went back , took a hoe from inside the door of his house and stabbed furiously at the cabbage patch , trying to rearrange the furrows in neat order . |
| 3 | Next morning Lucy found herself seated alone at the corner table , and when Jean brought her breakfast she learnt that Silas and Matt had left earlier to help the farm manager move cattle into different fields . |
| 4 | The distinctive aroma of chocolate and liqueurs will entice you to view the delectable selection of hand made quality chocolates and fudge made daily at the village confectionery . |
| 5 | Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off . |
| 6 | We could have come over to Bruges in the evening and dined together at the Duc de Bourgogne . ’ |
| 7 | Fierce repression failed to eliminate the growing strength of the Social Democrats , and in 1887 , after decades of faction fighting , the groups came together at the Hainfeld Congress to form a single multinational party under the foremost Social Democrat , Victor Adler . |
| 8 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 9 | As we poked away at the goulash soup with its lumps of pork and potato and which had been interestingly seasoned with caraway , Ladislav wanted to know my impressions of what I had seen and , in particular , my own attitudes to Marxism . |
| 10 | Having recently had a pacemaker installed I have nothing but praise for the treatment I received both at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton and the Freeman in Newcastle ( a Trust hospital ) . |
| 11 | In Taskopruzade and Mecdi 's account , the first of Molla Fenari 's teachers mentioned is Kara Hoca ( d. 800/1397 ) , under whom Molla Fenari studied probably at the Iznik medrese , of which Kara Hoca was the third muderris , having followed after the first , Dawud al-Kaysari al-Karamani , and his successor , Taj al- Din al- Kurdi ( Taceddin Kurdi ) . |
| 12 | They covered that without difficulty before dark , their only delay a meeting-up with their late fellow-invaders , the Armstrongs , whom they came across at the Kershopefoot crossing of Liddel Water , driving an even larger drove of cattle from Gilsland than the main body had collected , and taking a more northerly course home . |
| 13 | In an attempt to reduce support for Israel , OPEC announced a 10 per cent across-the-board cut in oil exports ( later briefly raised to 25 per cent ) and a selective embargo , directed chiefly at the United States . |
| 14 | Sally-Anne 's own preserve was the kitchen , where she ate either at the kitchen table , or , when that was full , at a small card table which was folded up and put away when she had finished . |
| 15 | Even nationalists such as myself began to tire of it , until the modern British revival that came unexpectedly at the Sydney Football stadium in the Third Test 1988 . |
| 16 | For the next five minutes he pounded frustratingly at the seal lining , the task not made any easier by the rhythmic rocking of the train as it sped through the rain . |
| 17 | two Chinese boys born in Siam ( Thailand ) in 1811 , joined together at the breast bone . |
| 18 | She only danced once at the Bolshoi Theatre last year . |
| 19 | But the 25year-old , who can earn a reported £5,000 a day , fled barefoot and arrived later at the Speke home of her grandparents , Bill , 80 , and Irene , 72 . |
| 20 | As he turned left at the Platz der Einheit and north on to the Otto Buchwitz Strasse he explained what he wanted her to do . |
| 21 | The pie parade , which included about fifty floats which had started from the neighbouring village of Scissett , arrived late at the pie field , having been stuck on various sections of the route , including the entrance to the field itself . |
| 22 | ‘ He had another one made later at the Mandarin Hotel , but the first one made him something of a laughing stock . ’ |
| 23 | SunSoft Inc last week launched version 4.0 of Interactive Unix , its Unix System V/386 3.2 implementation pitched squarely at the Santa Cruz Operation Inc market for Intel Corp systems with up to 20 users . |
| 24 | Was this what the murderer had done , leaving fingerprints which were by now enlarged and recorded and locked away at the police station , waiting to be produced at the trial ? |
| 25 | A fortnight viewing of their first exhibition , A Rough Guide to Teesdale , finished yesterday at the Durham Room in County Hall . |
| 26 | The text has achieved great influence , disseminated widely among senior officers , and taught formally at the Bramshill Police College . |
| 27 | She glanced across at the Laboratory clock . |
| 28 | Dynamic equilibrium within the fracture system was apparently maintained until 14 December 1991 , when the magma pressure exceeded the lithostatic stresses and the eruption began briefly at the summit end of the fracture , then continued at a bocca further down . |
| 29 | And although the competition only got underway at the NEC event , organisers Reed Automotive have already been flooded with calls from owners . |
| 30 | As the inquest got underway at the jockey club , the home of National Hunt racing , Cheltenham was reviewing its own starting gate which is similar to the one at Aintree . |