Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 2 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 3 | Ellsworth Kelly honoured at the Jeu de Paume |
| 4 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 5 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 6 | He says that Murray Johnstone looked at the idea but concluded that : ‘ There did n't seem to be much sense in launching a common investment fund . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM ’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft . ’ |
| 8 | Sun Microsystems Inc CEO Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers . |
| 9 | Miss Honey looked at the plain plump person with the smug suet-pudding face who was sitting across the room . |
| 10 | Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness . |
| 11 | Representatives of the Phoenix King arrived at the court of the Emperor of Cathay . |
| 12 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 13 | Miss Havisham looked at the fire , and then at me again . |
| 14 | TRAGIC pilot Ken McWhinney died at the controls of the plane he lovingly built with his own hands . |
| 15 | Northern region is headed up by Ronnie Noble based at the Northampton office . |
| 16 | In 1879 the eldest daughter to the Rev. Richard Cecil died at the age of 97 . |
| 17 | Richard Langton stared at the young girl before him . |
| 18 | Miss Harker blinked at the boy , utterly baffled . |
| 19 | On the contrary , as Professor Northcote Parkinson noted at the time , the civil service expanded as never before , locally as well as nationally , and the prominent place of central-government expenditure ( consistently over 40 per cent as a proportion of gross national product in this period ) is an outstanding feature of the period 1951–64 . |
| 20 | If I understood him correctly , this is an aspect of what David Parkin described at the 1973 Association of Social Anthropologists Conference as Personal Anthropology . |
| 21 | That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores . |
| 22 | As a result , when Richard Baxter arrived at the camp , he was seen as a Royalist sympathiser . |
| 23 | Ambrose , with the wind at his back at the southern end from which he had terminated England 's dogged resistance on the last afternoon of the 1990 Test , also had four wickets on the day , completing the latest West Indian triumph at Kensington by having David Richardson caught at the wicket and bowling Allan Donald with successive balls 20 minutes from lunch . |
| 24 | Miss Danziger waited at the place known as Lakeside at St Lund , where small craft poached alongside the road . |
| 25 | Guthrie Hepwood sat at the head of the table with Leith seated on his right , and with Naylor next to her . |
| 26 | Mrs. Bidwell arrived at the door as the two attendants from the mortuary van were carrying out the body . |
| 27 | Mother Francis stared at the enormously fat and none too clean woman . |
| 28 | Mother Francis looked at the women with appreciative eyes . |
| 29 | When Ruth and Miss Beard arrived at the rear door of the house , the carriage was already waiting . |
| 30 | The cavemen story was finished and ready in script form by the time Verity Lambert arrived at the BBC , the only change from the format she had read being the shift of Susan into the role of granddaughter to the Doctor . |