Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 2 | There are early mentions of the Portadown district in Latin documents about Papal taxation in 1296 and 1302 where the references are to Plebs Varren ( or , more familiarly , Ballyoran ) and the name ‘ Ballywarren al' Portadowne ’ is in the Ulster Inquisitions of 1609 but Portadown as a village only came into existence at the Plantation of Ulster . |
| 3 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 4 | In Rome there were Stefano Landi ( C. 1590C. 1655 ) , Luigi Rossi ( 15981653 ) , and Giacomo Carissimi ( 1605–74 ) , in Venice Marc' Antonio Negri ( fl. c. 1612 ) , Alessandro Grandi ( d. 1630 ) , Biagio Marini ( 1597–1665 ) , and Giovanni Berti ( d. 1638 ) , who all served under Monteverdi at St. Mark 's , and three other composers who did not , Guglielmo Miniscalchi ( fl. c. 1625 ) , Carlo Milanuzzi ( d. after 1647 ) , and the blind Martino Pesenti ( c. 1600–c. 1647 ) . |
| 5 | In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on . |
| 6 | Ballymena worked hard but it still was n't enough against a low-key Portadown side who only clicked into gear at the finish . |
| 7 | In 1915 and ‘ 16 he had proved he had n't lost his old touch , and so died in bed at a great age , garnished with colourful honours , many of them from grateful countries whose soldiers he had n't got killed even on purpose . |
| 8 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 9 | By the time negotiations finally got under way at Fontainebleau , elections for the new Constituent Assembly in France had resulted in a victory for the Catholic MRP , with the Communists in second place , and heavy losses for the French Socialist party . |
| 10 | In such ways , Hitler set the vicious tone for discrimination and persecution , providing the touchstone and legitimation for initiatives which largely came from others at various levels of the Party , the State bureaucracy , and not least the SS-SD-Gestapo complex , where the ‘ Jewish Question ’ had a key functional role . |
| 11 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 12 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 13 | Mrs Thompson 's daughter , Elizabeth , said her mother generally went to bed at 7 pm until 7 am and always turned the heating off , leaving the house quite cold . |
| 14 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 15 | A patch of red soon appeared in retaliation at the other end of the ground but both were quickly silenced by the twin evils of an unimportant match and a cold , dull afternoon . |
| 16 | We eventually arrived in Dunkirk at 2.00pm with a three hour wait until our ferry sailed . |
| 17 | Mm Well you never hardly go ever got into trouble at school . |
| 18 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
| 19 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 20 | The school day always began with prayers at nine o'clock , followed by a scripture lesson , and there was invariably arithmetic in some form or another until dinnertime . |
| 21 | In retirement he still worked with horses at his home near Tewkesbury … signed on as Central 's racing tipster … and no national hunt gathering was complete without Terry Biddlecombe … |
| 22 | I used to read to the family , and pray with them in the evening , and then I usually went to bed at nine o'clock . |
| 23 | John Lennon 's lyrics for A Day In The Life fetched £44,000 and Paul McCartney 's hit She 's Leaving Home went for £41,000 at Sotheby 's in London . |
| 24 | AS THE pound continued to sink , moving below the symbolic DM2.95 figure on the foreign exchanges , and shares plummeted , Nigel Lawson yesterday went into retreat at his Leicestershire constituency home to draft tomorrow 's make-or-break speech for the Conservative conference . |
| 25 | He had tried to remain calm but still seethed with fury at Maude 's continued intransigence in the face of his pleadings and questions : her only answer would be to bite her lip , shake her head and turn away in floods of tears . |
| 26 | The first draft also met with opposition at an EC Foreign Ministers ' meeting on June 17 when the United Kingdom , supported by Denmark and Portugal , called for the removal of a phrase in the preamble describing the treaty as " a new stage in the gradual process leading to a union with a federal goal " . |
| 27 | These conflicting ideas between party committees and student campaigners nearly led to confrontation at Beida , where the student elected to the local congress was denied his seat . |
| 28 | Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’ |
| 29 | It should be noted , however , that he also protested against conditions at Newgate , particularly the presence of strangers in the chapel ‘ pointing & whispering , to ye Confusion of ye wretched Men to Dye ’ . |
| 30 | In 1388–95 he also worked for Wykeham at Bishop 's Waltham . |