Example sentences of "of [noun] [coord] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 2 | Half an hour later , he went into the Lights of Lisbon and sat at the bar . |
| 3 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 4 | This was originally contemporaneous with the experiments of Premack and began at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Centre of Emory University in Georgia . |
| 5 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 6 | Frau Nordern blew out a voluptuous stream of smoke and looked at the man who suddenly became extremely interested in his herring Bismarck . |
| 7 | The Frenchwoman who ran the hotel came in with a crowd of people and sat at the only other table . |
| 8 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |
| 9 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |