Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun pl] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , he seemed taken aback by their liberalism , which showed concern with the problems of those who failed to pass examinations at school . |
| 2 | It was Hallowe'en coming up that gave her the idea they 'd had lessons at school about ghosts , witches and Hallowe'en . |
| 3 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 4 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 5 | Luke raised enquiring eyebrows at Merrill . |
| 6 | In the late 1530s another Northerner , the Fleming Jakob Arcadelt ( c.1504–after 1567 ) , began to publish madrigals at Venice , including one of the most popular of all , ‘ Il bianco e dolce cigno ’ . |
| 7 | She also found that her driving licence would be handy and she sometimes needed to visit patients at home . |
| 8 | Meanwhile she decided to hold Spittals at bay by investigating the dead man 's link with the Polish community in London . |
| 9 | After he was married , he even started making jokes at dinner parties about limp wrists and fairies . |
| 10 | Also , by an indenture of 12th September 1759 , he acquired mining rights at Tilberthwaite from Sir John Pennington . |
| 11 | It reminded her of the river bank where Pa and the boys went to cut rushes at weekends so that Ma and Billy could work all week . |
| 12 | Brigitte did make enquiries at Pitmans , where classes started at five in the evening , and at the Kilburn Polytechnic , where there were weekend classes , but continued to doubt her ability to study enough at evening classes . |
| 13 | The fact that the United Kingdom had given assurances at home and at Strasbourg never again to use them appears to have caused no qualms . |
| 14 | I only heard the start of the prog but it sounded like the Norwich fans had booked tickets at Leeds , went to pick them up and were told to f*** off ! |
| 15 | It contained many names : journalists whom he deemed to be lacking in a proper respect , politicians ( like Joshua Morris ) who had made jokes at Mrs Thatcher 's expense , Booker Prize judges . |
| 16 | SOME 2,500 Northern Ireland supporters gave last night 's World Cup game a miss — even though they had bought tickets at £10 a time . |
| 17 | In addition to their port duties , Lerwick staff had to cover controls at Sumburgh Airport which was thirty miles south of Lerwick over a bumpy switchback road . |
| 18 | Notable losses were Bailey and Read who had become professors at Glasgow and Liverpool respectively . |
| 19 | But I had to be back before dark still , and in the fairly late afternoon I had to change buses at Hyde Park Corner . |
| 20 | Sebastian and I had thrown eggs at Enoch Powell in Salford after his first racist speech . |
| 21 | ‘ Sebastian and I had thrown eggs at Enoch Powell in Salford after his first racist speech . |
| 22 | Macnab had read classics at Oxford , and appreciated the range of Joyce 's literary and linguistic knowledge , not least his ability to quote at will and to the point from Virgil and Homer . |
| 23 | His mother had read classics at Oxford and did n't it show . |
| 24 | Allan resigned to become the Geologist to the newly formed National Coal Board and J. G. C. Anderson and Kennedy left to become professors at Cardiff and Leeds respectively . |
| 25 | Also on Nov. 1 , two journalists were reported to have had their passports seized as they attempted to board flights at Douala . |
| 26 | One change intended to improve standards at Henley is the exclusion of Olympic and international oarsmen from certain events intended for club crews . |