Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attacks on some of Iran 's smaller towns and cities occurred comparatively early in the war , but apart from the first two days , it is not clear when either side decided to strike at population centres as a strategic option . |
| 2 | He said the EC guidelines included looking at design and layout of offices , eyesight tests , rest facilities for pregnant women and separate rest areas for smokers and non-smokers . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu liked to win at chess : the result of the game asserted his supremacy over his opponent in politics as much as the skills of the game itself — few risked beating the Comrade . |
| 4 | Buses have to drop off passengers in the middle of the road because cars had parked at bus stops . |
| 5 | There was an army display on for one day only , Mrs Blakey had said at breakfast : the car-park behind the fish-packing station had been taken over for it . |
| 6 | The general pattern of pausing in this experiment proved to be very similar to that found in the earlier experiment ; subjects tended to pause at clause boundaries . |
| 7 | In particular , for reasons that will be taken up below , the Nottinghamshire miners decided to remain at work . |
| 8 | BIG hearted Gaby Hills went racing at sea to raise money for a lifeboat — and had to be rescued after falling overboard . |
| 9 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 10 | Until 1990 not one such work had sold at auction for more than $1m . |
| 11 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 12 | Edna enlarged upon how well Karen had done at college , how , although she was the youngest in her family , she was always being called upon whenever she was at home to help out with other people 's children , how she had passed her driving test at the first attempt . |
| 13 | Isabel turned to look at fitzAlan before answering . |
| 14 | Around Malvern in Worcestershire driving snow slowed rush hour traffic to a crawl , as it did on high ground in Gloucestershire when overnight rain turned to snow at dawn . |
| 15 | Lacking the elaborate Go-motion system of rods and computer control that Tippett had devised at ILM for the dragon in Dragonslayer ( 1981 ) , intended to create a slight blur as each single-frame shot was made ( since in real motion the subject moves fractionally in the one-fiftieth of a second for which one frame is exposed ) , they simply shook the puppet a bit each time . |
| 16 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 17 | Having painted as a child , Stewart began to experiment at college ( the American College of London ) by applying patterns to everything in sight , from folding screens to lamps , and floor cloths to cutlery handles . |
| 18 | In August 1961 Northgate began prospecting at Tynagh without a prospecting licence . |
| 19 | The artists began to hint at change ; Japanese prints were re-educating the European eye and African masks attracted the attention of the sculptor and painter . |
| 20 | Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk . |
| 21 | Imagine the reaction if David Owen had appeared at Labour 's 1989 conference . |
| 22 | FOR six months Sarah Monelle had stayed at home with her cherished baby son . |
| 23 | And a card ‘ Happy Easter to My Mum ’ with a by now much bedraggled feather stuck on a drawing of , she supposed , an egg , that Clarissa had done at Nursery School ; and a hyacinth in a pot that Tom had got for Mother 's Day . |
| 24 | Son James had already rushed into the kitchen with the news that Liverpool had lost at home the previous evening . |
| 25 | Kiwi captain Martin Crowe said Aqib had sworn at umpire Brian Aldridge and accused him of being a cheat . |
| 26 | Rangers failed to win at home again this week . |
| 27 | In Leeds , Newton Park Union Church not only had a seventy-foot tower but a clock which Leeds Corporation agreed to illuminate at night . |
| 28 | Lyn was relegated from norw. premiership this season after the most dramatic relegation battle for years — they had to beat Brann , Bergen away with at least five goals and also Molde had to loose at home to Tromsoe. well Molde lost 1–0 and could have had a penalty . |
| 29 | Their ways had diverged at university — Angela Morgan had gone on to Oxford to read English , the fatherless Francesca , under more pressure to make a living , had gone to Cambridge to read law . |
| 30 | The game had stood at thirty-love when he tossed the ball up to serve and the man at the back of the opposite court had watched him hop and stumble , then fall , the racquet leaving his hand on the upswing and curving away . |