Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer it was her sailing day , but in the winter she spent it at home , cooking lunch , reading the papers , and generally lazing around . |
| 2 | In the beginning they stabled them at Bakehouse Farm , on the A5 . |
| 3 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 4 | But that , of course , does not take into account the loan we made you at the start of the year . |
| 5 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 6 | Though she was dressed , her long fair hair was still in pigtails , the way she wore it at night . |
| 7 | Now you 've had the , the benefit of hindsight which would you rather go with , the structured way or the , you know , the way you did it at the |
| 8 | Especially after the grilling you gave me at Southwold . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I saw the rose he gave you at the back of the drawer , wrapped in silver foil ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The Springboks really believed that by the time they faced us at Twickenham — 12 months after the World Cup final — they would lift the crown unofficially . |
| 11 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 12 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |