Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 2 | The exuberance that Minton helped generate at Camberwell was related to a deeper excitement animating the whole school . |
| 3 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 4 | Fission-track age determinations on apatites from undeformed granodiorite indicate that the South Mountains MCC has resided at temperatures of less than 100°C since 17Myr ( termination of major deformation ) . |
| 5 | Bella avoided looking at Joe . |
| 6 | ‘ Unfortunately , it 's just human nature that keepers mistakes are magnified and replayed over and over again — but I 'm always pleased when they bounce back , as Bobby has done at Blackburn . |
| 7 | Britain was today considering a United States request to look at ways of joining an air operation to parachute relief supplies into Bosnia . |
| 8 | His Aunt Lucy came to live at Howfield in order to look after Ramsey 's father and the family after Agnes Ramsey was killed . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's this your mother tells me about Markham coming to work at OBEX ? ’ |
| 10 | The settling blow was delivered by Archbishop Garbett , whom on the Friday Ramsey went to see at York . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu liked to win at chess : the result of the game asserted his supremacy over his opponent in politics as much as the skills of the game itself — few risked beating the Comrade . |
| 12 | Bradley Allen set the tone in the first minute when he hit the post after Spurs goalkeeper Ian Walker had flapped at Wilson 's cross . |
| 13 | Paul McStay grabbed the first goal with a first-time shot after keeper Bodo Illgner had punched at Tommy Boyd 's shot . |
| 14 | Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary . |
| 15 | David had winked at Juliet as he passed Bobbie 's bed , where the physiotherapist had just finished . |
| 16 | The Dalisons continued to live at Halling Palace until 1656 , when the grandson of Sir Maximilian , also named Maximilian , married Frances Stanley of West Peckham , heir to Thomas Stanley . |
| 17 | There was an army display on for one day only , Mrs Blakey had said at breakfast : the car-park behind the fish-packing station had been taken over for it . |
| 18 | It occurred to Helen — listening to Louise , contemplating the chest — that in all the years she and Edward had lived at Greystones they had fully occupied only their own bedrooms ; elsewhere , they perched . |
| 19 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 20 | Sigehere , king of the eastern Saxons ( HE II , 30 ) , appears there with Swaefheard , son of his co-ruler Saebbi ( so identified in ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , confirming the grant of land Caedwalla had made at Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 2 ) . |
| 21 | The locals consisted of the party of Sloanes Molly had seen at Nancy Leadbetter 's and another English family with two teenage sons whom Haverford , loudly and explicitly , urged his eldest grand-daughter to ‘ get off with ’ or ‘ drag away to the disco ’ , although he did n't suggest where a disco might be found in Mondano . |
| 22 | After their father 's death Alice and Robert Edelson continued to live at Edelson House , which has a 50ft-high monument in the garden , a memorial to two Edelson babies who died when only months old . |
| 23 | — Dance nights every Saturday have started at Thornley WMC with music provided by the resident dance band Trumpet and Crumpet . |
| 24 | Mick and Lisa Hayes have lived at Haydon Wick in Swindon for the past 9 years . |
| 25 | Biddy stood glowering at Nutty . |
| 26 | When Colin came to play at David 's house the boys would ring the neighbours ' doorbells and run away , and throw things into their gardens . |
| 27 | Ken Powell has worked at Bentley Pianos for forty one years . |
| 28 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 29 | However , Simon came to call at Regent 's Park , he had the perfect excuse . |
| 30 | C adds to the 1017 entry that the exiled ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , which could imply that the original was written before this happened ; but it should be noted that the final sentence of the same annal , on Cnut 's marriage to Emma before 1 August , comes after the notice of Eadric of Mercia 's execution , which Florence of Worcester says happened at Christmas ; if so , the sentence on the marriage looks like a relatively late addition . |