Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this country this achievement was largely due to the group of highly intelligent young men who were gathered together at Farnborough in the famous Chudleigh Mess in the first War . |
| 2 | Cambridge University lecturer Carl Swann , 36 , had checked in at Amsterdam 's Schiphol airport for a flight to Manchester just before an El Al cargo plane hit a nearby block of flats . |
| 3 | Charges were dropped altogether at Mazowiecki 's request . |
| 4 | The company carried on at Brookhouse , under various members of the family . |
| 5 | He was heavily into drugs by the time he left school and carried on at Cambridge . ’ |
| 6 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 7 | Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings . |
| 8 | Luca Cumani 's promising colt , Montendre ( next best 3.15 ) , got even closer to Welney at Yarmouth and has since won easily at Brighton . |
| 9 | Former surface supervisor Brian Young , 49 , father of two grown-up children , died after becoming trapped underground at Littleton Colliery , Staffs , on Monday . |
| 10 | And then Bissell had looked directly at Rohmer with those hellish , black eyes … and he had smiled . |
| 11 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 12 | SAINSBURY 'S was cleared of misleading shoppers about the purity of orange juice after charges were dropped yesterday at London 's Wells Street court . |
| 13 | The 24-year-old central defender was carried off at Tranmere Rovers on Friday night when his knee locked . |
| 14 | Oldham v Barnsley Dobbin , the Barnsley midfielder carried off at Blackpool in midweek , has made a good recovery from a knee injury and may play . |
| 15 | The Dragoons took John Browning with them and he was hanged later at Mauchline , where his name is on a memorial to Covenanters on the Loan Green . |
| 16 | She had looked straight at Jack when she said it . |
| 17 | Then , after chewing and swallowing the fragrant morsel , and after a sip of the strong green Longjing ch'a — itself ‘ untasted ’ — he had looked up at Beth Shepherd and smiled broadly , complimenting her on the dish . |
| 18 | so Spark looked up at Tony and said you sure you 're a fucking fitter . |
| 19 | ‘ I was thinking I 'm going to be picked up at JFK and they 'll be expecting a black feminist and they 'll realise they 've got the wrong author . ’ |
| 20 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 21 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 22 | Roman style , in quite the … as depicted formerly at Covent Garden Theatre , |
| 23 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 24 | On completion of the conservation programme the Firefly was officially rolled out at Duxford on June 2 , in company with the IWM 's Fairey Gannet XG797 and Sea Hawk WM969 , both of which had been subjected to a similar conservation programme . |
| 25 | It reached fruition on 4 Sep 6 , when the " Falcon 50 " was rolled out at Bordeaux , and made its maiden flight on 7 Nov 76 . |
| 26 | The sentence was carried out at Trier , but Priscillian 's body was carried back to Spain and buried in Galicia . |
| 27 | The third one focusing in specifically on the combat modelling is what is known as a C O E I A which is a combined operational effectiveness and investment appraisal and this work is being carried out at Farnborough and we 're comparing in single roles and multi-role Eurofighter two thousand against different aircraft . |
| 28 | A study carried out at Aberdeen University discovered rather depressing facts about communications between adults and their children as observed in three-minute periods in streets , buses and shops . |
| 29 | Important research carried out at Oxford University by Olivera Petrovich ( 1989 ) suggests that such naivety is something which children learn from adults rather than being innate . |
| 30 | The discovery of dopamine and its mode of action involved basic experiments on catecholamines in animals carried out at Oxford ; it contributed to the development of L-dopa as a treatment for Parkinson 's disease . |