Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 2 | Maggie found herself staring directly into the eyes of the young man she 'd noticed at a setting loom on her first day . |
| 3 | I 'd played at a club in Soho , even backed a few rock bands Lloyd had claimed to manage , and he 'd run a string of female mud wrestlers , mainly in the clip joint next door . |
| 4 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 5 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 6 | A Canadian reviewer said they looked like people I 'd found at a bus-stop , which I was very flattered by . ’ |
| 7 | Under a slab of rock which lay propped at an angle the earth had been scraped away to make a shallow burrow and lying in it , curled up comfortably on his side like a sleeping dormouse was a boy . |
| 8 | Three months later , Allison was travelling home by train from London , where she had enrolled at an agency for temporary secretaries , when labour pains began . |
| 9 | Analysis of the handmade red-brown pills which the hakim had prescribed at a dose of six daily showed each to contain 30–42 mg of inorganic mercuric sulphide ( table ) . |
| 10 | On the way he had stopped at a pub for three pints of Guinness , then arrived back in Darlington around 11pm when he was stopped . |
| 11 | Myeloski , not having had his customary oatmeal porridge for breakfast , had stopped at a shop to buy some vobla , a dried Caspian roach . |
| 12 | They had stopped at an inn close to Minster Lovell to buy a grand meal and sup a few tankards of ale . |
| 13 | She said the driver had stopped at an intersection , got into the back seat with her and assaulted and raped her . |
| 14 | Once , Bill Pertwee — again a staple member of the cast — remembered for me , Kenneth Horne made him write to the wife of an executive he thought Ken had insulted at a party given by the BBC for the Round The Horne cast . |
| 15 | Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity . |
| 16 | Some 4,000 demonstrators had congregated at a border point near the Pakistani Army encampment at Sialkot . |
| 17 | The Scottish Nationalists suffered a further setback when one of their leading figures , Mr James Sillars , was ousted from Glasgow Govan , which he had won at a by-election . |
| 18 | On March 27 , 1991 , the Communist Party of Great Britain , which had voted at a congress on Dec. 9 , 1990 , to abandon the principles of Marxism-Leninism and the policy of democratic socialism , published a draft constitution for the party which was to be renamed the Democratic Left . |
| 19 | His mouth was dry again , last week Conker had shied at a gorse bush and he 'd come off . |
| 20 | Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . |
| 21 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
| 22 | Some creature he had met at a dinner party recently ( he was , it had to be said , from East Finchley ) had had the nerve to tell him that New York was ‘ more vibrant ’ than Wimbledon . |
| 23 | Police discovered later that Lorna and Vernage had met at a children 's home years earlier . |
| 24 | they had met at a number of police conferences . |
| 25 | There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's . |
| 26 | Tina and Bruce had met at a farm dance near Gore . |
| 27 | Other than a girl he had seen at a spinning-wheel and singing a song in the Gaelic at Nairn , this was Johnson 's first true contact with the Scots of the west . |
| 28 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 29 | The Queen had said at a banquet given by Emperor Akihito that the atrocities had caused a " deep gulf " between the two countries ; Netherlands figures indicated that some 21,320 of the 138,500 internees had died during their internment . |
| 30 | Although the disagreements had been resolved in early March , continuing dissatisfaction in some quarters of the FKgP had been highlighted by the passage on March 18 of a vote of no confidence in FKgP parliamentary group leader Jozsef Torgyan , because of a speech he had made at a rally on March 9 attacking the voucher scheme . |