Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BBC commentator Brooking ( 44 ) admitted speeding at Ketteringham in Norfolk . |
| 2 | So he did , and sick indeed he was , for Brother Richard found him grey and shaking on his bed , when he failed to attend at Compline . |
| 3 | ‘ He got sacked at Newcastle , but sometimes I think the game can be cruel by not giving you enough time to make your mark . ’ |
| 4 | This publication contained detailed descriptions of persons who failed to appear at court to answer a criminal charge . |
| 5 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 6 | We agreed to meet at school the following week . |
| 7 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
| 8 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 9 | He also wrote a two-volume work on The Architecture of Robert and James Adam ( 1922 ) , which led to work at Adam 's Royal Society of Arts and in 1925 to his being consultant to the eighth Earl of Jersey at Osterley Park . |
| 10 | Yesterday Elstob , of Trafalgar Terrace , Darlington , admitted wounding at Teesside Crown Court . |
| 11 | The first school he helped build at Khumjung in 1961 started with 40 pupils and one teacher — it now has 400 pupils and 17 teachers . |
| 12 | In the midst of an American speaking tour , she stopped to lecture at Depauw University at Greencastle , near Indianapolis . |
| 13 | Man , 23 , found hanged at play area |
| 14 | The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school . |
| 15 | After some detailed survey work members of the Glasgow South branch ; Bill McMath and George Houston ( also assisted by QAI Jonathan Simmons ) including a night visit in the pouring rain which involved peering at cracks in the outer wall with a torch , a detailed proposal was submitted to the Council . |
| 16 | I only remembered it when I leaned forward or when I tried to sleep at night . |
| 17 | Yesterday , the former cabinet members promised to campaign at party meetings across Scotland to try to overturn the motion supporting the MPs ' actions , at the party 's next national council in June . |
| 18 | It turned back and tried to land at Malta , but was refused permission . |
| 19 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 20 | The shock was such that she stopped crying immediately , but what was worse , she stopped crying at home as well and felt simply awful , physically and mentally , until able to cry again . |
| 21 | He also found learning at school a trial . |
| 22 | I promised to stay at Morton school until Christmas , when St John would be able to find another teacher . |
| 23 | I stopped sleeping at night . |
| 24 | She let fly at Geoffrey . |
| 25 | Again not unknown to the market , having been previously estimated at £500,000–700,000 by Sotheby 's then offered to the Louvre , the first of the Rubens , ‘ Portrait of Madame de Vicq ’ ( lot 56 ) , was nonetheless an outstanding work which narrowly failed to sell at £950,000 ( est. £1–1.5 million ) , and sold after the sale . |
| 26 | Among the high estimated lots , a pair of George I wall-sconces , with coat-of-arms in foliage and shell cartouche by Gabriel Sleath , 1717 , failed to sell at £28,000 ( $48,468 ) against estimate of £30–50,000 . |
| 27 | In their special Spanish sale on 28–29 May Christie 's London offered a portrait of Doña Maria Teresa de Vallabriga which failed to sell at £600,000 . |
| 28 | ‘ What am I ? ’ she asked looking at Tumbleweed , and then began to recite in a sing-song voice , ‘ with a stick in me hand and a stone in me throat , I walk through the land in me shiny , red coat . ’ |
| 29 | She avoided looking at Juliet , even though the latter was the subject of the discussion . |
| 30 | Bella avoided looking at Joe . |