Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 2 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 3 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 4 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 5 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 6 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 7 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 8 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 9 | Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream . |
| 10 | ‘ There must have been other women , ’ Jenna began mournfully , but his lips silenced her at once and he kissed her possessively until she began to tremble all over again . |
| 11 | Several emotions battered her at once then , so how she managed to find a voice that was as cool as his she would never know . |
| 12 | Allitt fed her at 12.30pm and her parents collected her at 4pm . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 14 | TV COMMENTARY duties saw us at Headingley on a Tuesday followed by Cardiff on the Thursday . |
| 15 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 16 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 17 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
| 18 | Our distinguished guests left us at Oban where we returned the following day . |
| 19 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 20 | The price of baby blankets surprised me at £5 each . |
| 21 | Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 . |
| 22 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
| 23 | We were half-way to the island when the pirates fired it at us . ’ |
| 24 | As Birmingham abolitionists expressed it at their celebratory public breakfast in the Town Hall on 2 August 1838 , with slaves ‘ relying on their own peaceful and persevering efforts for the removal of every vestige of oppression ’ and with ‘ the continued vigilant aid of the British people , under the blessing of Divine Providence ’ they foresaw ‘ the progressive development of the glorious results of free institutions and the reconstruction on purer and better principles of the now disorganised elements of colonial society ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Churchill had nine inch long cigars sent him at Christmas and |
| 26 | God and the saints remembered her at last . ’ |
| 27 | The servants had theirs at two , gathered round the scrubbed table in the big kitchen . |
| 28 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 29 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 30 | Once amongst the world 's greatest blue-water navigators , guided by wave patterns and the clues in seaweed and bird droppings , the Bugis had now lost so much confidence in their old ways that they had been reduced to coast-hugging , on the principle that if their ships sank they at least had a chance of making it ashore alive . |