Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 2 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 3 | Mandy did n't come to the meeting , Mrs. Maddison keeping her at home as a punishment for her disobedience in going into the swamp . |
| 4 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , Mother Francis got one at Miss Pine 's . |
| 6 | Nic Parry produces it at Theatr Clwyd on Monday and Tuesday of next week . |
| 7 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 8 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 9 | Each year groups from mainland Spain find themselves at the house of the White Dove , a name symbolic of the peace and comfort which they experience through his caring approach . |
| 10 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 11 | McLeish took a minute to formulate his reply , and Giles Hawick got it at once . |
| 12 | When he stopped the car on the way home Sally threw herself at him . |
| 13 | ‘ Did Dr Russell ring you at your family 's ? ’ the housekeeper wanted to know . |
| 14 | Ahmad Soungui , hitherto Foreign Minister , became Minister of Information and Culture , and the former Minister of Information , Culture and Tourism , Mahamat Saleh Ahmat replaced him at the Foreign Ministry . |
| 15 | Mr McQueen joined them at table , and gave Johnson the kind of local knowledge he loved — the economics , way of life , problems of such an existence . |
| 16 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 17 | Tom Fish held him at arm 's length over his head , spun him this way and that until the sky turned sickeningly above him . |
| 18 | KEVIN MORAN today urged Irish pal Roy Keane to join him at Blackburn Rovers . |
| 19 | The boy showed little talent for the business and hardly earned the £2 10s Mr Marshall paid him at the end of the week . |
| 20 | ‘ Your readers might wonder how he could win at Ripon after finishing down the field when Lester Piggott rode him at York , but there was nothing sinister about it . |
| 21 | Of course you really should n't use such a dangerous structure , and if Ted Piggott spotted you at it he 'd doubtless give you a row . |
| 22 | Mr Ali hurled himself at Conroy as he fired , hitting the shopkeeper and Navid , who had been watching TV . |
| 23 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 24 | The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 . |
| 25 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 26 | Mr Spedding said he at least would continue the tradition , ‘ while I am able to stagger up the stairs ’ . |
| 27 | He also told you to ask Sir Charles to meet you at the moor gate . |
| 28 | Mr Khalili values it at over £1 billion . |
| 29 | Instead of bowling the ball , which bore a small silver shield , Mr Cottle threw it at a low-flying swan . |
| 30 | Olivia Durdin-Robertson meets us at the porch , under the protective wing of Horus . |