Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 32 | For reasons beyond his control , the new tsar found himself at war with Persia just as he was coming to terms with the Turks . |
| 33 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 34 | He then entered himself at Lincoln 's Inn , and , after being called to the bar in 1789 , began to practise on the northern circuit . |
| 35 | With the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia , Germany found itself at war with its trade competitors in the west , and at war with its nationalist rivals and its potential empire in the east . |
| 36 | Frederick 's aggression disturbed George II 's position as Elector of Hanover and , because he tried to defend Maria Theresa 's treaty rights and France joined in the attack upon her , Britain found itself at war with France . |
| 37 | ‘ I tried you at home earlier — has n't anyone mended your cable yet ? ’ |
| 38 | He shouted something at Endill but he could n't hear because of the wind and did n't dare move or shout back , frightened he would upset the basket . |
| 39 | Malcolm bounced one at Waqar , who spliced it some distance ; but midwicket was deep . |
| 40 | Window displays were becoming controversial within the company ; Laura liked to see windows full of antiques and atmosphere , but increasingly found herself at loggerheads with more prosaic minds who wanted products and price-tags . |
| 41 | Living at such close quarters with them , Anne found herself at odds with the princesses . |
| 42 | Then she found herself at Lodge offices , where Ethel Mitchell was still working . |
| 43 | She started work at 14 and by the time she found herself at Vons she 'd held a variety of jobs . |
| 44 | Carolyn Bartholomew who visited her at Kensington Palace three days after William was born recalls : ‘ She was thrilled with both herself and the baby . |
| 45 | THE PRINCESS of Wales met one of her heroines when Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited her at Kensington Palace . |
| 46 | When the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] visited her at Ekenge in 1895 , she found Miss Slessor ‘ has lost most of her missionary ideas and bullies the native chiefs in their own tongue … and is regarded by the other missionaries as mad and dangerous ’ . |
| 47 | Eddie McAteer made a public call for the march to be postponed , but Fred Heatley , John McAnerney and Betty Sinclair visited him at home to persuade him not to pull out . |
| 48 | For the last two years or so of Phillip 's life , Marje never visited him at home , according to friends . |
| 49 | I caught him at work one day , myself |
| 50 | When he found her at Leominster , Hereford and Worcester , he spent Pounds 68,000 on the house next door . |
| 51 | ‘ I further said to [ the defendant ] ‘ You set men to watch her , you trail her and found her at Gloria Chin 's house and there you threatened to kill her with your gun , but she escaped you . |
| 52 | I climbed the steps up onto the lock and knocked on the door of the lock-keeper 's house , and through great good fortune found him at home . |
| 53 | ‘ I found him at Church I : nd . |
| 54 | Er I phoned her at work at the tribunal . |
| 55 | The squire who was sent south to carry the good news to King Henry overtook him at Daventry on the 20th of September . |
| 56 | His second outing was particularly encouraging , since the filly who beat him at Headquarters was none other than Henry Cecil 's Felucca , already a leading fancy for next year 's Classics . |
| 57 | There were signs that Waterloo Boy was past his best for the season and those were emphasised when Katabatic easily beat him at Cheltenham in April . |
| 58 | Young described it at Warrington , Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 59 | Two hundred thousand folk caught it at Silverstone yesterday … it 's being spread on radio and television even comes through the letterbox with the morning papers … |
| 60 | The Mercers fixed it at £100 in 1503 ; either it was not enforced or the assessments are thoroughly unsatisfactory . |