Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 She stopped at Barbs 's house and pushed open the gate .
2 In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR .
3 There were two tests of number concepts which looked at pupils ' understanding of whole number and decimal place value , the number line , and some aspects of fractions .
4 Denis Wirth-Miller attended a talk he gave at Goldsmiths ' College and observed how he galvanised the audience .
5 Like so many men he sneered at women 's intuition but conferred a quasi-biblical authority on his own .
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