Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domesticated buffaloes lumbered through the flooded fields , too , hauling tiny wooden plows , or wallowed at rest in deeper hollows with only their scimitar-shaped horns and noses showing above the water . |
| 2 | Slaves , as property , were under the absolute power of their owners ; they could be bought , sold or traded at the whim of the master , and were occasionally awarded as prizes in lotteries , or wagered at gaming tables . |
| 3 | Meals were enlivened by readings or poetry recited or chanted at Charles ' command . |
| 4 | A video showing the alleged IRA safe house at 17 Campbell Road , asked people viewing it to try to remember whether they had seen , inadvertedly had drinks with , or queued at shops with members of the IRA unit . |
| 5 | In the afternoons she paid the calls she could not escape from , visited the Rectory regularly , or sat at home on Wednesdays devising domestic plans for the future in between visitors . |
| 6 | ‘ I spend my time in the bookies or sat at home in front of the telly . |
| 7 | After the war , Unionist candidates with commissions , good war records and decorations made the most of their advantages , especially when they could be set against opponents who had opposed the war or stayed at home . |
| 8 | Elsewhere rail passengers either found other means of transport , or stayed at home . |
| 9 | Although traditional attitudes towards women were changing gradually , a new sex equality act was needed to allow women to choose whether they worked full time , part time or stayed at home with their children . |
| 10 | I now look forward to resuming my career wholly without blame or blemish for any of the difficulties that arose at Magnet . ’ |
| 11 | Indeed , he was both an amateur painter and a musician in a rock band that met at weekends . |
| 12 | Lord Justice Woolf 's inquiry into the serious disturbances that erupted at Strangeways and other prisons in the Spring of 1990 extended beyond the immediate causes to an examination of such underlying factors as prison overcrowding , conditions and regimes , and policies towards remand prisoners . |
| 13 | The mean change in urine acid output that occurred at breakfast time in 14 normal adults was -0.88 mmol H + /mmol creatinine ( 95% confidence interval ( CI ) of mean -0.71 , -1.0 mmol H + /mmol creatinine ) . |
| 14 | Ibrox may be immune to the pitch invasion that occurred at Maine Road , but violence and intimidation are not exclusively physical , and every Saturday Scottish football grounds resound to racial and sectarian chants , most with violent overtones . |
| 15 | Public concern about the hazards from methane gas in housing and engineered structures was heightened by the recent devastating explosions that occurred at Loscoe in Derbyshire and at Abbeystead in Lancashire . |
| 16 | Government officials said that the design had been improved to prevent the kind of accident that occurred at Chernobyl in 1986 . |
| 17 | As stated earlier , it is easy to misinterpret the unreliable later part of the curve ( for example , the sharp decrease in the estimated ulcer free survival of patients treated with cisapride that occurred at week 52 resulted from a single ulcer recurrence ) . |
| 18 | In the most recent public inquiry concerning the BEA Trident that crashed at Staines near Heathrow in 1972 , the commissioner was a High Court judge who was also an experienced wartime pilot in the Royal Air Force . |
| 19 | The final day of the hearing has included evidence from a Metropolitan Police forensic expert , who admitted ammunition found at the scene of the crime did n't match that found at Marsh 's parents ' home . |
| 20 | The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture . |
| 21 | We 've got to see the Oxford United that played at Blackburn , that played at Tottenham and that played at Chelsea , if they 're going to get anything out of the game . |
| 22 | We 've got to see the Oxford United that played at Blackburn , that played at Tottenham and that played at Chelsea , if they 're going to get anything out of the game . |
| 23 | We 've got to see the Oxford United that played at Blackburn , that played at Tottenham and that played at Chelsea , if they 're going to get anything out of the game . |
| 24 | All that happened at Bourani was in the nature of a private masque ; and no doubt the passage was a hint to me that I should , both out of politeness and for my own pleasure , not poke my nose behind the scenes . |
| 25 | And the method they have adopted has proved to be the beginning of the slide that has lead to mass dispersals of the kind that happened at Brent . |
| 26 | It may be that there is a clue to this in something else that happened at Limoges . |
| 27 | All that happened at Port Said . |
| 28 | I had a spell off instruction and became the assistant to the chief ground instructor and , in that capacity , I also was instructed to carry out preliminary inspections of crashes that happened at Kinloss during that period , and a most unpleasant task this was . |
| 29 | In the ensuing debate , Alan Shatter , TD of Fine Gael , author of a book on family law , pointed out the better provision being made under the projected divorce law for a first wife than existed at present , and that children of the first marriage would maintain their present rights , though they would have to share with children of the second marriage . |
| 30 | A career that began at Stoke City in 1930 , he played as a professional for more than 30 years . |