Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 2 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 3 | on now this year to have me mum and dad cos she never had them at Christmas and I thought it 's not fair , you know , she 's the |
| 4 | You think you know people and then you wonder if you ever knew them at all . ’ |
| 5 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 6 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 7 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |