Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day before we had moved up there I was at the melin for a few days with an actress friend from London when I announced my attendance at a jumble sale that afternoon . |
| 2 | First , cavorting lunatic- savant features editor , James Brown , snogged my mate at a party . |
| 3 | Being used for draught work until quite recently , the French animals retained their size at a time when British cattle were deliberately bred smaller and more short-legged , and these bigger , muscular , fast-growing and later maturing French types now meet today 's demands for lean ‘ supermarket ’ meat cuts . |
| 4 | When Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 9 November 1856 ) tried its hand at a garotting song , it summed up the feeling well enough : |
| 5 | Taking to Water ( July ) , in which Jeannette Kupfermann described her stay at a thalassotherapy centre , had a huge response . |
| 6 | They trio were allegedly caught with a booby-trap bomb when police stopped their car at a checkpoint at Upper Cairncaslte Road , Larne on April 18 last year . |
| 7 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 8 | The Fatherland Front ( the former umbrella organization of the BCP and the BZNS ) changed its name at an extraordinary congress on March 30-April 1 , 1990 , to the Fatherland Union in an attempt to avoid the " front-line sound " of its name . |
| 9 | In the case of' Playne and Smith , they concentrated their efforts at a single site , Dunkirk , modernising it and installing a steam engine and power-looms . |
| 10 | He jerked his head at a hollow twenty yards behind him . |
| 11 | He turned his head away , and as the light caught his face at a certain angle Nenna realised in terror that he was right and that he would never get anywhere . |
| 12 | But he failed to persevere with his invention ; nor was the era of relatively abundant labour supply and of machine-breaking propitious for its development , whereas McCormick perfected his reaper at a time favourable to its adoption by farmers in North America and Europe . |
| 13 | When Rune successfully tried his luck at a shooting gallery and invited her to choose which prize she wanted , she selected a paperweight in the form of the Little Mermaid sitting on her rock . |
| 14 | Perhaps she reserves her fondest memories for Sergeant Barry Mannakee who became her bodyguard at a time when she felt lost and alone in the royal world . |
| 15 | Dewi Sukarno , 52 , attacked her victim at a jetset Christmas party in Aspen , Colorado , attended by Ivana Trump , Barbra Streisand and model Elle MacPherson . |
| 16 | Bricklayers ' money wages , apart from a slight fall from 1736 to 1742 , were unchanged from 1717 to 1792 , and their labourers ' rates shared their constancy at a ratio of 3 : 2 . |
| 17 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 18 | Two days later , the parents told their story at a public meeting in the village hall in St Margaret 's Hope , a little fishing village on the edge of Scapa Flow . |
| 19 | My father reported that the Shoan leaders estimated their troops at a hundred and twelve thousand , but he warned the Foreign Office that they tended to count the number at a chief 's disposal rather than how many he could effectively assemble . |
| 20 | She smiled and she lifted her eyelids at a man in a way that conveyed how attractive and interesting he was . |
| 21 | LESBIAN and gay delegates yesterday vented their anger at an attempt by the Labour leadership to abandon past conference calls to reduce the age of consent for homosexual acts from 21 to 16 . |
| 22 | Helen received her prize at an awards ceremony at London Zoo from John Precious of Intervet . |
| 23 | There were also the unforeseen situations that prevented his attendance at a course at the last minute — like the sudden outbreak of mildew that demanded immediate attention . |
| 24 | Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party . |
| 25 | Shifting into an uncomfortable position in which her back was slightly turned to the tray , with her hands still strapped down , she turned her head at a painful angle to watch the tray . |
| 26 | The Russians are believed to have detected this deployment and fired their shells at a high angle over the heads of the Slavs to hit the Austrians ahead . |
| 27 | However , when unveiled , this scheme met with only a lukewarm response ( and was disparagingly described by the prince of Wales as ‘ resembling a 1930s wireless set ’ ) and SAVE renewed its objection at a second public inquiry in 1988 . |
| 28 | AT least 720 couples celebrated their golden weddings and renewed their vows at a cathedral service in Chicago . |
| 29 | The AFPFL renewed their demand at a meeting of the Supreme Council of the League , 16 — 23 May . |
| 30 | On the night of the fatal attack Tony , who had no idea of his wife 's affair , joined her lover at a pub . |