Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station . |
| 2 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 3 | I called in at a Sainsbury 's to buy some essential items . |
| 4 | When talks broke down at a Leeds hotel last week , Wilkinson told both players to go home and think over his offer , but Andersson 's later outburst left the Leeds manager fuming . |
| 5 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 6 | A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school . |
| 7 | THE playwright Harold Pinter was among guests who fled in night clothes when fire broke out at a Brighton hotel yesterday . |
| 8 | A total of 43 people died on Jan. 14 , most of them from toxic cyanide fumes , after a fire broke out at a Zaragoza nightclub . |
| 9 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 10 | SECURITY is to be stepped up at a Darlington pensioners ' community centre following two break-ins . |
| 11 | Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine . |