Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night Kalchu 's two brothers came to look at Sigarup , and the three men and Chola sat around the fire discussing in low worried voices what they were going to do . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Wine bottles began to cluster at tables like sentries . |
| 4 | In particular , for reasons that will be taken up below , the Nottinghamshire miners decided to remain at work . |
| 5 | The Indians refused to testify at Findley 's trial , and he was freed . |
| 6 | REVOLVER , Pulp and The Bardots are among 15 bands confirmed to appear at London 's Smashed ! |
| 7 | People on passing boats began to shout at Lucenzo , waving him down , but he seemed not to notice . |
| 8 | Details of the troop deployment were formulated by the Saudis and Dick Cheney , the US Defence Secretary , on Aug. 6 , and the next day Bush formally announced that King Fahd had requested that US ground forces and war-planes be dispatched to Saudi Arabia to deter Iraqi aggression ; US combat aircraft and troops started to land at Dharhan in eastern Saudi Arabia that day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rangers failed to win at home again this week . |
| 11 | Ludens went to look at Irina who was on her knees rummaging in a pile of clothes which now covered the floor of the bedroom . |
| 12 | Yesterday , the former cabinet members promised to campaign at party meetings across Scotland to try to overturn the motion supporting the MPs ' actions , at the party 's next national council in June . |
| 13 | However , a trickle of collectors and speculators began to arrive at Zborowski 's flat early in 1918 , buying up Modigliani 's oil paintings , worth millions of pounds today , for three or four hundred francs . |
| 14 | John McEnroe enabled the USA to reach the semi-finals this year by answering Mr Gorman 's plea to play singles because certain other players preferred to play at Queen 's or practise elsewhere for Wimbledon . |
| 15 | Over by the volleyball court a crowd of older children gathered to look at postcards of Scotland ( always an icebreaker , particularly if you can find a picture of someone in a kilt ) . |
| 16 | John 's pupils continued to train at Lime Grove . |
| 17 | Party officials attributed this to antipathy to the " open ballot " system in which voters had to queue at polling booths behind the poster of their chosen candidate and were publicly counted . |
| 18 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 19 | A hoarse , angry noise came from the crowd and faces turned to look at Fleming the teacher , who was standing near the manse under a yew tree . |
| 20 | In the economic circumstances of the time , most students had to live at home . |
| 21 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 22 | Mortgages at preferential interest rates may be offered to employees asked to move at company request with eligibility criteria ( such as age , service and marital status ) waived or reduced . |
| 23 | The price of low category security has been more than some inmates wanted to pay at Springhill Prison in Buckinghamshire . |