Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] at [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | BIG hearted Gaby Hills went racing at sea to raise money for a lifeboat — and had to be rescued after falling overboard . |
| 7 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 8 | Edna enlarged upon how well Karen had done at college , how , although she was the youngest in her family , she was always being called upon whenever she was at home to help out with other people 's children , how she had passed her driving test at the first attempt . |
| 9 | Isabel turned to look at fitzAlan before answering . |
| 10 | What we can glean , though , and what Goody appears to take at face value , is some insight into how they represented themselves , such as in the statements they made about the reliability of their own accounts . |
| 11 | Lacking the elaborate Go-motion system of rods and computer control that Tippett had devised at ILM for the dragon in Dragonslayer ( 1981 ) , intended to create a slight blur as each single-frame shot was made ( since in real motion the subject moves fractionally in the one-fiftieth of a second for which one frame is exposed ) , they simply shook the puppet a bit each time . |
| 12 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 13 | Having painted as a child , Stewart began to experiment at college ( the American College of London ) by applying patterns to everything in sight , from folding screens to lamps , and floor cloths to cutlery handles . |
| 14 | In August 1961 Northgate began prospecting at Tynagh without a prospecting licence . |
| 15 | Borough council chief executive Clive Owen has looked at unemployment statistics , business confidence and the housing market to determine the state of the town 's economy . |
| 16 | Imagine the reaction if David Owen had appeared at Labour 's 1989 conference . |
| 17 | FOR six months Sarah Monelle had stayed at home with her cherished baby son . |
| 18 | And a card ‘ Happy Easter to My Mum ’ with a by now much bedraggled feather stuck on a drawing of , she supposed , an egg , that Clarissa had done at Nursery School ; and a hyacinth in a pot that Tom had got for Mother 's Day . |
| 19 | Son James had already rushed into the kitchen with the news that Liverpool had lost at home the previous evening . |
| 20 | Kiwi captain Martin Crowe said Aqib had sworn at umpire Brian Aldridge and accused him of being a cheat . |
| 21 | Lyn was relegated from norw. premiership this season after the most dramatic relegation battle for years — they had to beat Brann , Bergen away with at least five goals and also Molde had to loose at home to Tromsoe. well Molde lost 1–0 and could have had a penalty . |
| 22 | Sarah chose to look at contract distribution and information systems division in her dissertation . |
| 23 | Despite US rhetoric about ’ democratisation ’ , El Salvador has remained at war , with kings and ’ disappearances ’ once more on the increase . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher has talked at length and often about popular capitalism and consumer choice , and she has also said much about freedom and democracy . |
| 25 | Timothy turned to look at Topaz and became strangely silent . |
| 26 | Linford set to retire at top |
| 27 | ( Marlon tries to look at ant 's backside . |
| 28 | Intel is also developing a software version of Digital Video Interactive and working with Microsoft Corp to build support for it into Microsoft 's Audio Visual Interleave software , which Microsoft plans to announce at Comdex/Fall next month in a package called Video for Windows . |
| 29 | Wycliffe began to feel at peace with himself and the world . |
| 30 | They turned into an alleyway off Friday Street and Cranston began to bellow at passersby for the whereabouts of Parchmeiner 's shop . |