Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other thing that was interesting I learnt at dinner on Thursday night is , under the government 's legislation within so many years , nineteen ninety four I think , they 've got to ha have reduced their market share from the original hundred percent to sixty percent as new firms come in to sell gas |
| 2 | In Chapter 2 we looked at sources of information and at how to gather material . |
| 3 | My father was due four months ' leave and this they spent at Beachley , his attractive house near Chepstow at the mouth of the Severn . |
| 4 | This they did at Motherwell , and the Dalzell works began operations early in 1872 , employing 200 men . |
| 5 | His original ambition was to be a painter , and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith 's College School of Art . |
| 6 | In 1872 he introduced at Victoria on the Metropolitan District Railway an automatic train-protection system whereby a red lens positioned in front of a white signal light was raised above it on actuation from an electrical contact only when the section ahead was clear . |
| 7 | D' ya know what , whenever I feel guilty about spending some money now , I just think about how much I spent at home . |
| 8 | The rise was a mere token , from 2 to 3 per cent , but people were so nervous they clutched at straws , assuring each other that now all would be well . |
| 9 | At full nineteen he stood at life 's door , |
| 10 | For the first half of 1946 I remained at school , where the privileged handful of us who had won our places at Oxford and Cambridge did no work , read widely , cycled to the seaside . |
| 11 | These they unloaded at West African ports along with cloth , linen , glass beads and bronze manillas . |
| 12 | In 1920 he matriculated at Edinburgh University for a B.Sc. |
| 13 | When it got to about 1 a.m. he realised how cold it got at night when you are outside . |
| 14 | ‘ Look where it 's got us ! ’ — that was the assumption behind all I said at Diodati the other evening . |
| 15 | But she says the shopkeepers in Dromore are very good and communication is helped by the lip-reading she learned at Mary Mitchell 's class . |
| 16 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 17 | She 's well known in diplomatic circles , and she 's quite right in all she said at dinner , and although I contradicted her , there are strange rumours of war going around . |
| 18 | IN Part II we looked at advice and information . |
| 19 | In 1825–9 he studied at Edinburgh University , graduating MD in 1829 ; the dedicatees of his thesis , ‘ De Ventris in Reliquum Corpus Potestate ’ ( on the influence of the abdomen over the body in general ) , included Professors William P. Alison and James Home [ qq.v . ] . |
| 20 | From 1899 he studied at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , and qualified as MRCS and LRCP ( 1907 ) ; later he attained the degree of MD ( Durham ) . |
| 21 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 22 | In Chapter 3 we looked at Levi 's study of long-firm fraud as an example of corporate crime . |
| 23 | Tuesday 27th we camped at East Twinbrook , about five miles from where the waterway ends and where the Chewonki van would be waiting to take us back to camp . |
| 24 | Fifty per cent of mothers returning to work part time do so in lower level jobs than those they left at childbirth . |
| 25 | In 1949 he crashed at Tangmere in a Wellington , suffered burns , and after treatment at the East Grinstead Queen Victoria Hospital , left the RAF to become a night time telephone operator and union Branch Secretary . |
| 26 | At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner . |
| 27 | Early in September 1923 I arrived at Windsor Station with my mother , and from there we drove in a horse-drawn cab past the Castle and across the Thames into Eton . |
| 28 | But first we called at Mr Macauley 's sweet shop to stock up for the frequent film changes . |
| 29 | In 1766 he arrived at Otley on feast day and found the town " gone mad in noise , hurry , drunkenness , rioting , confusion , to the shame of a Christian country " . |
| 30 | By 1951 this had risen to 30% and by 1987 it stood at 60% . |