Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | All was fine , until the Customs man stopped me at Heathrow Airport . |
| 2 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 3 | Ian Abbey , Conservative chairman of the education committee assured her at yesterday 's Tory-controlled full council meeting that children would be fed and the letter would be investigated . |
| 4 | The Michaelmas term saw me at my most hostile . |
| 5 | " A noble breakfast , " says George Borrow of the morning meal offered him at an inn at Bala in North Wales , " there was tea and coffee , a goodly white loaf and butter , there were a couple of eggs and two mutton chops — there was boiled and pickled salmon — fried trout also potted trout and potted shrimps . " |
| 6 | He had a two-stroke lead over playing partner Frost with two holes to play before the defending champion pipped him at the post with birdies on 17 and 18 . |
| 7 | The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed . |
| 8 | And the Bismark , launched as the unsinkable battleship by Hitler , was destroyed after the Reconnaissance Unit spotted her at sea . |