Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 2 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
| 3 | Before they left for Raasay , there arrived at the Mackinnons ' a card and two visitors . |
| 4 | Boz called at the Hankses ' cottage early the next morning . |
| 5 | A relative who is staying at the Bennetts ' Liverpool Road home stressed today that they were not building up their hopes . |
| 6 | He was known at the Wayfarers ' Refuge in Cosway Street in St Marylebone , an excellent place , where he usually got a midday meal and medical attention for minor ailments when he needed it . |
| 7 | The raiders struck at the Bayles ' home , Newsham House , in the village of Little Newsham , near Barnard Castle , Teesside Crown Court heard . |
| 8 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 9 | Grandmother Margot 's pacemaker explodes in the crematorium oven , a minor atomic blast in a country trying to go non-nuclear ; a local urchin loses an eye in a fight at the cousin Urvill 's restored castle ( and has it replaced with an artificial one cast at the McHoans ' Gallansch glass works ) ; Rory and brother-in-law Fergus pass a nightmare night in a hill-top bothy with cannabis , whisky , a rat , two guns and one shattering revelation as props . |
| 10 | Maisie had moved out of her parents ' house and come to stay at the Wilsons ' shortly after her mother 's funeral , a multi-denominational affair dominated by the headmaster of the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys ' School ( Day ) . |
| 11 | He seemed to hang suspended above the worshippers , his two tiny arms held out in front of him , and he was as still and quiet and calm as he had been when sitting at the Wilsons ' table or resting , alone , at the back of Class 1 . |
| 12 | But this time , Antonia 's mother had rung to ask whether Antonia might stay at the Jardines ' . |
| 13 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 14 | The usual family gathering at the Andersons ' was held over until late January as Theresa had invited her parents and brothers and sister to her house for Boxing Day , and Pat said he thought it was a good idea . |
| 15 | Corbett felt his own anger boil at the Prioress ' air of righteous indignation . |
| 16 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 17 | At Alice Fernie and Stanley Curtis who stood at the Fernies ' gate . |
| 18 | Giles Aplin remained at the Hankses ' cottage until Tom returned from his work at the manor . |