Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went upstairs , had a wash then took my place at the dining table . |
| 2 | Merlyn demanded to know why he had not reported her departure at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ THEY keep on writing you off — but they 're wrong , ’ beamed a delighted Roy Inman , the women 's team manager , as Ann Hughes , Britain 's top lightweight , stepped off the mat having won her semi-final at the World Championships here yesterday . |
| 4 | The 27-year-old mother 's ordeal began when the kidnapper jumped out at her after she had parked her car at the top of a multi-storey at a shopping centre in Eastleigh , Hants . |
| 5 | It had been forty-five minutes earlier when Dr Barbara Moule had parked her Fiesta at the Chesterton Hotel , finding John Ashenden waiting for her a little anxiously . |
| 6 | ( They will already have curled their lip at a book such as this and moved on . ) |
| 7 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 8 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 9 | If he 's never caught his breath at the sight of your crooked smile , or felt his heart lurch with love at the sound of your voice , or watched you walk across a room and wanted you and finally found out that you return his feelings , then he 's a poor man and I 'm the richest man in the world . |
| 10 | Alf , the Conway House driver , had parked his bus at the end of the road , and , as they approached , Rachel could see the passengers waving to them . |
| 11 | The pain was the result of a German mortar fragment which had smashed his thigh at the battle of Arnhem , three years before . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've enjoyed our stay at the top and we want to stay there . |
| 13 | I 've just visited my grandmother at the chapel of rest and I 'm pleased she does n't know anything about this |
| 14 | I 've phoned my friend at the hospital — a Dr Mackintosh . |
| 15 | There was sadness at the absence of Steffi Graf , who had to return home without playing because , within days of recovering from the flu that had disrupted her appearance at the Hopman Cup , she went down with German measles . |
| 16 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
| 17 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 18 | They had missed his flute at the wedding . |
| 19 | You must have noticed our grass at the front on your way in then . |
| 20 | In its role as the chief purveyor of propaganda and agitation , the press had shifted its accent at the start of NEP . |
| 21 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 22 | O K , but if you have n't shown your face at the window in the first couple of minutes I 'm coming in after you . ’ |
| 23 | Ranged against these pro-Green Belt interests are those who feel that existing restraint policies have outlived their usefulness at a time of rapid socioeconomic change , and are positively detrimental to the communities they are meant to protect . |
| 24 | His counsel , Mr Charles Gray , QC , suggested that the libel had damaged his reputation at a time when he was about to break into serious acting after a string of top 10 hits as a pop star and a stint in the Australian TV soap , Neighbours . |
| 25 | Others may have shared my depression at the spectacle of party activists of various political persuasions sitting , stopwatch in hand , to measure the amount of time given to their views compared with those of their opponents . |
| 26 | Political propaganda on the part of the American Relief Administration , by far the longest foreign source of aid , warped its judgement at the time , and the subsequent polarization of Russian-American relations has not improved the objectivity of later scholarly accounts of the Famine as seen through American eyes . |
| 27 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 28 | Unknown to Merseyside Police , the Samaritans received a telephone call about midday from a man believed to be Mr Ashworth saying he had abandoned his son at a citizen 's advice bureau in Brandon Street , Hamilton , near Glasgow . |
| 29 | Cloud by day and fire by night marked his presence at the tabernacle , which was quite literally in their midst . |
| 30 | That book portrayed her as an insecure child , who had overcome her unhappiness at the time of her mother 's elopement by zealously nursing her younger brother . |