Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun prp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first met Ben Johnson at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham just prior to the Commonwealth Games . |
| 2 | This led S. Ohno at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York to the rather unlikely conclusion that the mammalian ovary must be capable of inducing oestrus cycles even in the complete absence of eggs . |
| 3 | ‘ Go away ! ’ shouted Mr Crick at the cock . |
| 4 | FRED COUPLES won his first tournament since last year 's US Masters when he beat Robert Gamez at the second hole of a sudden-death play-off in the Honda Classic at Fort Lauderdale , Florida . |
| 5 | ‘ Friends , Romans , countrymen , ’ shouted Fred Stokes at the top of the Forum steps , carrying Arthur Moe in his arms centre stage . |
| 6 | On his way home he again visited Mrs Wood at the hotel . |
| 7 | Four Russian bakers visited Calcot Savacentre at the beginning of May as part of a fact-finding tour to help develop the market economy in russia . |
| 8 | The most notable example of this occurred in the county in 1264 , when the troops of Simon de Montfort defeated Henry Ill at the Battle of Lewes . |
| 9 | When I first met Christopher Pilkington at the Centre I had no idea he was a priest and remember asking if he was the healer as one might question a plumber 's identity . |
| 10 | Mr Singleton advised Sergeant Joe at the beginning to be careful about envelopes . |
| 11 | I told Mr Miller at the pet shop I 'd be there soon after surgery . ’ |
| 12 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 13 | Her brother , Mohammed Bhatti , 33 , told Lord Osborne at the Court of Session yesterday : ‘ My family and sister are the victim of some sort of fraud . |
| 14 | ‘ It has the range if we fit it with FAST packs , ’ the Air Force general told Morton Stannard at the Pentagon . |
| 15 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 16 | ‘ And your servant , Captain Meredith ? ’ asked Mr Spriggs at the end of all this . |
| 17 | The shopping expedition came after the couple — Hollywood 's hottest property — met Princess Diana at the West End premiere of their film , Far And Away . |
| 18 | It was this work , along with the subsequent brilliance of his public performances , that created his reputation as ‘ Canada 's leading young poet ’ : ‘ His virtues are his own , and they are considerable … at his best he expresses himself , sometimes whimsically , sometimes passionately , in speech which is beyond the capacity of mere formula to produce , ’ commented Allan Donaldson at the time . |
| 19 | In 1967 , he joined South Tees at the old Hemlington Hospital . |
| 20 | So do French politicians : ‘ it is through Europe that we affirm our presence in space and across the world ’ , declared President Mitterrand at the Le Bourget aerospace show in June 1987 . |
| 21 | Last November he trounced Mr Wilson at the ballot box , both defeating a budget initiative sponsored by the governor and increasing the number of Democrat assemblymen . |
| 22 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 23 | A large studio shot showed Euturpia Kennedy at the age when I first met her , shy hope not yet driven from her eyes . |
| 24 | The suspension tarnished the day for the Irishman who joined Peter Scudamore at the top of the jockeys ' table mark after landing a double . |
| 25 | On the other hand , the statement that Hocazade , as kadi of Istanbul , was amongst the group of ulema who met Ali Kuscu at the time of his arrival to settle permanently in the Ottoman lands , which event Babinger plausibly dates in the beginning of the spring of 1472 ( Shawwal 876 ) , may , if the facts stated are correct , permit a refinement of the dating of Molla Husrev 's departure from the kadilik , which would thus appear to have occurred between Rajab and Shawwal 876 . |
| 26 | I 'd have hated it if someone told me who killed Laura Palmer at the start of Twin Peaks . ’ |
| 27 | When he called Patrick Seymour at the embassy he was incandescent with anger . |
| 28 | Tico on the inside , hit Miss Woolco at the initial corner but came off best and shot clear , holding off a late challenge from Newry Blue by three quarters of a length in 31.03 seconds with third . |
| 29 | JOHN SMITH , lecturer in the Law Department , warned Marian Jackson at the beginning of her second year that too much time spent with Dram Soc would prevent her from getting a first class degree . |
| 30 | He gets his Fuggles from a leading grower named Tony Redsell at the splendidly-named Mockbeggar Farm near Faversham . |