Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 2 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 4 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 5 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 6 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 7 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 8 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 9 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 10 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 11 | The Michaelmas term saw me at my most hostile . |
| 12 | But a quite terrible disappointment awaited her at Stowbridge . |
| 13 | Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes . |
| 14 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 15 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The coach dropped me at the Lofleiđ3ir , a palatial hotel . |
| 18 | One day when I changed my aunt 's library book for her the girl handed me At Mrs Lippincote 's , the first novel of a new author , published that year . |
| 19 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 20 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 21 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 22 | A genuinely warm welcome awaited us at Les Trois Mousquetaires , our hotel , which is run by the Venet family . |
| 23 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 24 | For Trimotor N7584 only reached $350,000 on the bidding floor but an ‘ after-auction ’ session clinched it at $650,000 . |
| 25 | The cold held it at bay despite the glow of the flames on his face . |
| 26 | When the Sutton route was replaced by trolleybuses , the remainder joined them at Brixton in December 1935 , but the contract with Cohens for their scrapping had already been signed on 12 October . |
| 27 | Nigel started a kind of evening shift , that you was there with your kids during the day and then your husband got them at night and you come out and worked at nights , so it |
| 28 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 29 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 30 | The suggestions included limiting Congress 's powers only to proposing amendments to the Constitution , and allowing Yeltsin to retain the right granted him at the October-November 1991 extraordinary Congress to appoint ministers without approval from the legislature . |