Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years .
2 Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse .
3 Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off .
4 She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings .
5 On the 20th of March Katherine and Beatrice dined together at the Closerie des Lilas .
6 Police with truncheons waded in at the San Siro stadium as fighting broke out , although there were no immediate reports of severe injuries .
7 Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN .
8 So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow .
9 Having recently had a pacemaker installed I have nothing but praise for the treatment I received both at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton and the Freeman in Newcastle ( a Trust hospital ) .
10 The Chinese lashed out at the Nobel Prize Committee for meddling in China 's affairs and ‘ hurting the Chinese people 's feelings ’ .
11 In an attempt to reduce support for Israel , OPEC announced a 10 per cent across-the-board cut in oil exports ( later briefly raised to 25 per cent ) and a selective embargo , directed chiefly at the United States .
12 Even nationalists such as myself began to tire of it , until the modern British revival that came unexpectedly at the Sydney Football stadium in the Third Test 1988 .
13 She only danced once at the Bolshoi Theatre last year .
14 But the 25year-old , who can earn a reported £5,000 a day , fled barefoot and arrived later at the Speke home of her grandparents , Bill , 80 , and Irene , 72 .
15 In 1713 , at the election for the City of London ( where the franchise was vested in the liverymen ) , " a great Mob of Weavers and such people " ( who were presumably not enfranchised ) turned up at the Guildhall in support of the Whigs , and " made a disturbance and caus 'd much fighting and quarrelling " , although the four Tory candidates eventually carried the day , " notwithstanding the Rabble " .
16 Only 2,222 turned up at the Vic for the 3–1 win against Exeter on Tuesday well below the average attendance for the season , 3,500 .
17 Ms Daniels turned up at the Vines Hotel , Lime Street in regal robes leading the Peter Walker shire horses Majestic and Surprise .
18 It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there .
19 That 's why the Death Squad turned up at the San Jacinto Market on 9 April 1980 .
20 Their talent for self-promotion ensured that many people turned up at the Ritz to witness the intriguing spectacle of The Smiths falling on their collective backsides .
21 As he turned left at the Platz der Einheit and north on to the Otto Buchwitz Strasse he explained what he wanted her to do .
22 When we arrived back at the Grange , Cathy told her father about the visit .
23 When I arrived back at the Land Rover I met Abdulla , the student teacher , who had been attracted by the breakdown .
24 The last EF1-11s based at Saudi arrived back at the Oxfordshire base at the weekend .
25 It drew the hungry child from his bed to the landing , where he glanced nervously at the Bogeyman 's room before creeping on tip-toe along the strip of faded carpet .
26 On his arrival in England in 1969 , he signed on at the Jim Russell school and raced in Formula Ford , passing from there to F3 , winning the championship , and moving on in 1970 to F2 for Lotus .
27 SunSoft Inc last week launched version 4.0 of Interactive Unix , its Unix System V/386 3.2 implementation pitched squarely at the Santa Cruz Operation Inc market for Intel Corp systems with up to 20 users .
28 A fortnight viewing of their first exhibition , A Rough Guide to Teesdale , finished yesterday at the Durham Room in County Hall .
29 The text has achieved great influence , disseminated widely among senior officers , and taught formally at the Bramshill Police College .
30 ‘ They started at L'Escargot , went on to Annabel 's , then Crazy Larry 's , then L'Equipe Anglaise and finished up at the Chelsea Arts Club .
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