Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 2 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 3 | Ellsworth Kelly honoured at the Jeu de Paume |
| 4 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 5 | ‘ The university term began at the beginning of the month . ’ |
| 6 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 7 | He says that Murray Johnstone looked at the idea but concluded that : ‘ There did n't seem to be much sense in launching a common investment fund . |
| 8 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM ’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft . ’ |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems Inc CEO Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers . |
| 10 | Miss Honey looked at the plain plump person with the smug suet-pudding face who was sitting across the room . |
| 11 | Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness . |
| 12 | Representatives of the Phoenix King arrived at the court of the Emperor of Cathay . |
| 13 | The prison officers ' dispute Sharon refers to is the Prison Officers Association overtime ban started at the end of April 1986 . |
| 14 | For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted . |
| 15 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 16 | Soccer Hooligans Run Riot Violence erupted at the … |
| 17 | This promising start to a career was , however , to be abruptly terminated , for after eleven years in practice Playfair died at the age of thirty-nine . |
| 18 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 19 | Miss Havisham looked at the fire , and then at me again . |
| 20 | TRAGIC pilot Ken McWhinney died at the controls of the plane he lovingly built with his own hands . |
| 21 | The setting sun glowed at the bottom of her half-acre garden , lightly gilding the fruit blossom with a pinkish-gold lustre and reflecting a few faint rays from the greenhouse windows . |
| 22 | Northern region is headed up by Ronnie Noble based at the Northampton office . |
| 23 | In 1879 the eldest daughter to the Rev. Richard Cecil died at the age of 97 . |
| 24 | Richard Langton stared at the young girl before him . |
| 25 | ‘ What 's puzzling me is that phone-call Nicola had at the party . |
| 26 | Miss Harker blinked at the boy , utterly baffled . |
| 27 | On the contrary , as Professor Northcote Parkinson noted at the time , the civil service expanded as never before , locally as well as nationally , and the prominent place of central-government expenditure ( consistently over 40 per cent as a proportion of gross national product in this period ) is an outstanding feature of the period 1951–64 . |
| 28 | If I understood him correctly , this is an aspect of what David Parkin described at the 1973 Association of Social Anthropologists Conference as Personal Anthropology . |
| 29 | That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores . |
| 30 | As a result , when Richard Baxter arrived at the camp , he was seen as a Royalist sympathiser . |