Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former surface supervisor Brian Young , 49 , father of two grown-up children , died after becoming trapped underground at Littleton Colliery , Staffs , on Monday . |
| 2 | DM outlined the system which has operated successfully at Kew for some years . |
| 3 | IAN SHERRATT , who has played outstandingly at prop for Salford since his summer signing from Oldham , could be out for the rest of the season , writes Paul Fitzpatrick . |
| 4 | Consider , for instance , informed discussions of sporting events , which are always displays of evaluative analysis : who played well , who disappointingly , and why and how ; or whether a team has played better at home or away , this season or last . |
| 5 | COLIN PASCOE 'S injury jinx has struck again at Sunderland . |
| 6 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 7 | It is this kind of ‘ book ’ which has eaten away at budgets and corrupted the library staff more than any other . |
| 8 | She has worked extensively at Ronnie Scotts in London and Birmingham . |
| 9 | As a former tough-tackling centre-back with Stoke , Smith has worked overtime on a City defence that has lost heavily at Millwall and Brentford in the past month . |
| 10 | He 'd looked meaningfully at Treadwell . |
| 11 | D' ya , d' ya know what I think Al , I think he 's from Barnsley cos that Bob lots of money he 's had dropped there at Barnsley |
| 12 | We could have lolled peaceably at home tonight , watching All That Heaven Allows on BBC2 . |
| 13 | Having looked again at Coleman 's letter of the previous September , the committee had some discussion with him , and eventually proposals prepared jointly by Coleman and Moorcroft were referred to a meeting , which they both attended , on 10 February 1794 . |
| 14 | Seaview , a sprawling white villa that would have looked equally at home on some Greek island , was set high on a bluff overlooking the sea , poised like some magical fairy-tale castle , its silhouette sharp against the darkening autumn sky , at its feet the rocky shore that tumbled to the sea . |
| 15 | Faldo has the invaluable experience of having won twice at Augusta . |
| 16 | He would have done well at sea . |
| 17 | Lord Derby , who steered the Act through Parliament , would have felt quite at home with the parliamentary debate which took place after the 1952 smog some 90 years later . |
| 18 | However , a 1–0 win would be enough , and Wilkinson added : ‘ We scored here and in Barcelona , we made chances in Stuttgart , and we should have scored more at Ibrox . |
| 19 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 20 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 21 | Seems he got left behind at JFK Airport in New York , sitting by the baggage claim with his headphones on , and two hours later , still had n't realised that no-one had come to claim him . |
| 22 | Months later , when Marie had departed , Louis is said to have paused nostalgically at Brouage on his way to Paris after marrying the Spanish Infanta at St Jean-de-Luz . |
| 23 | In comments which appeared directed principally at Yeltsin , Gorbachev in an address to the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences on Feb. 26 had openly acknowledged that a power struggle was under way , and warned that the Soviet Union could collapse into civil war unless radicals curbed their opposition . |
| 24 | She had looked straight at Jack when she said it . |
| 25 | And then Bissell had looked directly at Rohmer with those hellish , black eyes … and he had smiled . |
| 26 | He had come aboard at Kenora , he said , because the body of a groom from this train called Ricky had been found lying beside the railway lines near Thunder Bay . |
| 27 | The one he and Julia had found at the asylum did n't seem to have too much connection with the one Theodora had mentioned she had come across at St Saviour 's . |
| 28 | When people asked Mrs Maugham where her daughter got her brains from , she would sniff and shrug her shoulders and say , as though disclaiming a vice or a disease , " Well , she certainly did n't get them from me , she must have got them from him , I suppose " — a remark which Clara took years to place , in all its ambiguity , for the truth was that Mrs Maugham had done well at school , she had shone and prospered , and the evidence of her distant triumphs still lay around the house in the form of inscribed Sunday school prizes . |
| 29 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 30 | ‘ I met an old man today , one of the down-and-outs , on my way back , ’ Stuart had said once at home , while his mother was getting ready to go out . |