Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could read very little into Went to see A Hard Day 's Night — Fab or Went swimming at CC . |
| 2 | They ‘ had a motor car placed at their disposal … and planned to arrive at Dennis ' home [ at Ancaster , near Sleaford ] at 9.30 , so as to have a glass that cheers , and then talk until midnight , the earliest time for signing . |
| 3 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 4 | It turned back and tried to land at Malta , but was refused permission . |
| 5 | Grandad arrived in Baldersdale around the turn of the century , to work on the building of the reservoir , and came to lodge at Low Birk Hatt , when Great-Grandfather Tallentire was running it . |
| 6 | When Bill Clough proposed , she accepted him and came to live at Petworth Estate . |
| 7 | ‘ And came to rest at Ridgery Butts , ’ commented the Friar thoughtfully . |
| 8 | 3T3 cells were grown as monolayers in flasks , collected by trypsinization and allowed to stand at 4°C for 2h before incorporation into reaggregates . |
| 9 | Willie met him and turned to look at Tom . |
| 10 | Elizabeth placed her cup carefully on the hob by the fire and turned to look at George , who was leaning forward , looking at her earnestly . |
| 11 | Eleanor lowered her hands and turned to stare at Melissa , an expression of bewilderment on her blotched and swollen face . |
| 12 | Trees and shrubs and plants from all parts of the world were introduced and encouraged to feel at home ; Inverewe became tropical . |
| 13 | Of our five Greats students Barbara Davies ( Mrs Mitchell ) remained in Oxford and began teaching at St. Anne 's soon after her marriage to a tutor at Worcester . |
| 14 | Albert fell prey to his nightly fantasies of living with Bella again and began looking at Jim with rage in his heart toward the wet blanket who was preventing it . |
| 15 | Esther paid her first visit to Italy , where she spent three months at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia , learned some Italian , drank a great deal of wine , took up with a middle-aged American art historian and began to look at paintings . |
| 16 | Keeping the aircraft low , and as level as he dared , he raced over the target as the bombs fell away , and kept going at rooftop height until reaching the outer suburbs of the city . |
| 17 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 18 | Mercer Lorrimore was over in England at that time , and stayed and went racing at Newmarket in July , but the Jockey Club found him grimmer than his usual self and understood it was something to do with his son , although he did n't say what . |
| 19 | He resigned from Whitefield 's and intended to resign from Parliament , and went to lecture at Yale University on ‘ The Romance of Preaching ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ There was no inheritance in the case , you see , for Robert Beckenham was only a third son and chose to live at home in idleness rather than follow a profession . ’ |
| 21 | Since a high proportion , normally at or near 100 per cent , of their work was in teacher education , looking at BEd proposals meant in fact judging the institution as a whole , and the CNAA knew from the outset that many of the colleges hoping for validation would not be adequately staffed , experienced and resourced to teach at degree level . |
| 22 | Christian accompanied him once to Ireland to watch a new filly run , took one look through the field-glasses , announced he was already dying of boredom , and departed to look at paintings . |
| 23 | He could and did talk at times as if he were simply continuing Schleiermacher 's programme , and described Schleiermacher as his predecessor in the matter of method . |
| 24 | Although Terry was a steady and capable defender , he could and did play at inside-forward . |
| 25 | Fiona looked at the seating plan and said to meet at table six . |
| 26 | The band had started at Lydgate at 5pm and had played at Scouthead and Delph , they thought , before arriving at Uppermill . |
| 27 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 28 | Sutton-born Geoff Chilvers had been with the Palace as a Junior in the early days of the 2nd World War and had appeared at Selhurst Park in an interesting schoolboy game that was used as an experiment with numbered players , but his extraordinary claim to footballing fame , which will delight fans with a statistical quirk in their nature , is that he made his debut with a League club as a 16-year-old in a match where his side scored double figures . |
| 29 | The fog exacerbated his emphysema : he was short of breath , found it difficult to walk very far , and had to stay at home in seclusion . |
| 30 | In addition to Newbury it centred on Reading and Abingdon , about which information is scanty , and had flourished at Wantage during the fifteenth century . |