Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The company carried on at Brookhouse , under various members of the family . |
| 3 | He was heavily into drugs by the time he left school and carried on at Cambridge . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The 24-year-old central defender was carried off at Tranmere Rovers on Friday night when his knee locked . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | so Spark looked up at Tony and said you sure you 're a fucking fitter . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | — 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The sentence was carried out at Trier , but Priscillian 's body was carried back to Spain and buried in Galicia . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Most of the Cotswold silk trade was carried out at Blockley , over some 200 years . |
| 23 | Much of the work is being carried out at IBM 's UK Labs in Hursley Park , Hampshire . |
| 24 | In Swindon we are obviously delighted because all of the production of the equipment , all the design and the research , is all carried out at Swindon except for the software , which is provided by C S I . |
| 25 | The work is being carried out at Britain 's first centre for research into the economic value of drugs , based at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School , Dundee . |
| 26 | Although it was being carried out at Winnington , home of ICI 's Alkali Division , it was being sponsored in part by the company 's dyestuffs interests , in the hope that it might provide new routes to organic chemicals used as intermediates . |
| 27 | Scolar 's British Printmakers 1855–1955 edited by Robin Garton ( £75 ) starts with the Etching Revival of the mid-nineteenth century , and includes the experimental work carried out at Corsham and St Ives in the 1950s . |
| 28 | Experiments were carried out at Pitlake junction with an electric induction frog setting device , from 18 January 1947 . |
| 29 | Some of the studies being carried out at Henley are being sponsored by a group of clients with a common need . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if there are currently any contracts with the Atomic Energy Authority for research into the fabrication of weapons components using plutonium ; and whether any such work has been carried out at Harwell . |