Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ill-looks are a punishment received when he failed to appear at a fairy festival , preferring to spend his time with a mortal maiden . |
| 2 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 3 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 4 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 5 | The feminists had divined that , who once , when she rose to speak at a meeting , had hissed and cat-called , assuming her crowning glory to be the seductive and marketable product of an inhumanely tested bottle . |
| 6 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 7 | He chanced to resurface at a moment in the film when the divine Ms Rau is indulging in carnal acrobatics with the leading male actor . |
| 8 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
| 9 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 10 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 11 | In time I learnt to tell at a glance , from the decorations he wore , how often a man had killed , just as I might tell from his campaign medals where a British soldier had served . |
| 12 | The survey was a comparison between self-service and counter-service grocers and the student was puzzled that the old lady claimed to shop at a counter-service yet all her answers suggested that she used a self-service shop . |
| 13 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 14 | The Party 's best known members , Jonathan Porritt and Sara Parkin , declined to stand at a ballot to elect two Green Party political speakers . |
| 15 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 16 | Spa towns led by Bath , ports headed by Bristol and Liverpool and including the new venture at Whitehaven , and manufacturing centres like Birmingham , Leeds , Manchester and Sheffield began to grow at a significant rate . |
| 17 | This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage . |
| 18 | We began to run at a great speed through the trees , and Silver was soon thirty metres behind us . |
| 19 | The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate . |
| 20 | The Wolverines ' stock of blast and frag grenades would likewise be of little avail , though since each grenade hardly bulked larger than a coin the Scouts could at least retain their pursefuls of those in case they needed to kill at a distance . |
| 21 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 22 | ‘ When he heard that you wanted to be near Marilla , he decided to teach at a school in another village . |
| 23 | Linda 's family were visiting from Ireland and after visiting Thorpe Park in Surrey , they decided to stop at a pub on the way home . |
| 24 | For Green , the proposal of the Cambridge Board had major implications at national level and he sought to arrive at a local compromise to prevent a more widespread set of problems for the WEA . |
| 25 | In order to avoid what Cantalupo termed a situation of " paralysis " in Spain , Italian diplomacy sought to arrive at a political solution in the Basque Country . |
| 26 | ‘ She chose to go at a very inconvenient time , I must say ’ |
| 27 | So I left , and went to stay at a friend 's . |
| 28 | He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage . |
| 29 | Most bottom-dwelling trilobites preferred to live at a particular water depth , or on a particular type of sea bottom ( mud , sand or lime ) . |
| 30 | I was surprised that , at this level , mental processing appeared to operate at a speed 3 to 5 times slower for less able primary 7 pupils . |