Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the crossing in was poor and our best chances came when Strach , Sharp , or Mcallister ran at the defence ( good tackling denied Strachan a certain goal ) . |
| 2 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 3 | that neither angel nor devil came at the hour that he was dead . |
| 4 | We went into Julia 's room , and Holmes looked at the windows carefully . |
| 5 | Anna and Sarah sat at the table , and the man stood and watched . |
| 6 | Evelyn and Dan sat at the breakfast bar . |
| 7 | The reporter signed off , and Kathleen stared at the screen as Jack 's image was replaced by the film that had been running . |
| 8 | Through the Sixties Jack and Ann worked at the Nestfield Unionist Club , in Albert Hill , Darlington , supervising the new club when it was first opened . |
| 9 | Willie and Zach waited at the foot of the ladder while Sammy scrabbled around the first rung . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party . |
| 11 | Drake 's interest in magic and illusion began at the age of nine when his parents took him to Indonesia . |
| 12 | But Edward had lost interest in easy conquests for the present , and Erica hinted at the ending of an affair when she had left the States . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that representatives of both Korea and Taiwan appeared at the public hearing on the issue to argue their case , Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to grant the request for certification . |
| 14 | In side-streets , special Stasi units and paddy-wagons waited at the ready . |
| 15 | Maddison and Shearer arrived at the Dell from their native north-east at the same time and shared a house when they were virtual unknowns . |
| 16 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 17 | This was wild mountain scenery , the sparsely covered valley floor overhung by vast ochre-coloured crags , and Maggie shuddered at the thought of being stranded here . |
| 18 | She and Maggie worked at The Haven hotel where they 'd been employed since leaving school three years previously . |
| 19 | Charlie Harris was a shrewd street-seller whose appearance and demeanour tugged at the heartstrings of the compassionate . |
| 20 | Both she and Katherine gazed at the girl 's openly sensuous movements , the clinging magenta frock , the dramatically outlined eyes against the pale skin , the fall of blonde hair . |
| 21 | For once , sunshine was slanting in ; and Ruth sat at the table , drawing with her finger round the shadow of the coffee cup — then abruptly got up , opened the basement door and went down the steps into the darkness . |
| 22 | Thérèse and Léonie stared at the steep wall of rock , at the grass and weeds at its foot . |
| 23 | Wearing a smart , grey check suit Mrs Davies explained how she and Gilfoyle met at the Murrayfield Hospital where she was employed as a food service assistant . |
| 24 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 25 | The hostility between Scotland and England began at the end of the thirteenth century with the Scottish succession crisis caused by the death of Alexander III in 1286 and of his only direct heir , his granddaughter Margaret Maid of Norway , in 1290 . |
| 26 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 27 | Salt was making a meal of Jess 's shortcomings and Nancy stared at the new kitchen wench while her mother nodded in her easy-going way as she took off her shawl and recaptured her dropping hairpins . |
| 28 | Rincewind , Twoflower and Hrun stared at the coin . |
| 29 | Myles Reilly and McDermott stayed at the windows . |
| 30 | Because there was no register of potential donors at that time , no match was found and Anthony died at the age of seven . |