Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 2 | The couple met when Heath stopped to help at an accident outside her home near Pontypridd , Mid-Glamorgan , the court heard . |
| 3 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 4 | He chanced to resurface at a moment in the film when the divine Ms Rau is indulging in carnal acrobatics with the leading male actor . |
| 5 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 6 | ‘ When he heard that you wanted to be near Marilla , he decided to teach at a school in another village . |
| 7 | Linda 's family were visiting from Ireland and after visiting Thorpe Park in Surrey , they decided to stop at a pub on the way home . |
| 8 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
| 9 | But something did delay her ; she stopped and stood to stare at a marvel of nature , so strange as to suspend belief . |