Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather he 'd stayed at home with us , but it was his choice , and he 's not a child any longer . ’ |
| 2 | She would never have had the kind of success she 's had , with Broadway and so on , if she 'd stayed at home in England waiting to be asked . |
| 3 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 4 | They 'd chatted at length about the progression of the public relations arrangements , about the meeting she 'd just had with the video expert , and Salvo had appeared impressed at the amount of hours she was putting in . |
| 5 | ‘ … and it is with regret we must inform you that your husband Gerald Patrick McKeown has been reported missing , believed lost at sea as a result of enemy action on the night of 23rd/24th April , 1941 … ’ |
| 6 | By the sixth century , a colony of holy men had gathered at Glastonbury in the Somerset Levels . |
| 7 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 8 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 9 | The Lewes trainer was cleared in August of passing weights to jockey son Mark after Carfax had won at Lingfield in February . |
| 10 | She then deprived the tsar of the special status he had enjoyed at Constantinople since 1833 . |
| 11 | Tall and slim , without the usual broad shoulders of the pace man , he had excelled at athletics as a youngster , with the result that he was a fast bowler like virtually no other ; his approach to the wicket was so soft and silky that he hardly seemed to touch the ground at all , and several umpires said that they were not able to hear him running in . |
| 12 | She remembered how she had looked at Rose in some surprise , and said , ‘ Yes , that would be swell , but I have n't enough money with me to pay for supper . ’ |
| 13 | She had looked at Sylvie for a long time before speaking . |
| 14 | Charles and Sarah had met at Ascot in June 1977 when Sarah was licking her wounds after her romance with the Duke of Westminster had ended . |
| 15 | Green had developed a passion for a university law student he had met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 16 | Butler postponed publication of the White Paper 's proposals until after the Conservative Party Conference had met at Blackpool in the Autumn of 1958 . |
| 17 | Boswell and Johnson took this road to Cruden Bay , in order to fulfil an invitation put in train by a lady they had met at worship in Aberdeen on Sunday morning . |
| 18 | He had the bogus Red Cross form which I had seen at Amsterdam on his lap . |
| 19 | Then Mr Lewis began to report certain remarks his lordship and others had made at dinner on that first evening after his arrival . |
| 20 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 21 | Lanfranc had modelled his church on the one which he had built at Caen with its notably short and stubby choir . |
| 22 | The subsequent history of the town is confused ; by 1564 its trade was said to be in decline , and it sustained a further blow when William 's son retired to the fine house he had built at Shaw on the outskirts of the borough , leaving his men to sing ruefully : |
| 23 | But in October 1951 , when Ramsey had professed at Cambridge for exactly a year , Churchill came back to power . |
| 24 | In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November . |
| 25 | 21–10 The " Islay " landed a very fine lot of two-year-old Galloway cattle which he had bought at Falkirk for D. Johnston at Laphroaig . |
| 26 | Jean , the toughest and nastiest , nodded grimly ; her brother had died at Arivegaig with Catriona 's husband . |
| 27 | There is no specific evidence for his recapture , but it was announced in parliament in the autumn that he had died at Berkeley on 21 September . |
| 28 | As ordered , he had anchored at night off the port of Sinop . |
| 29 | She had thought at length over what he had told her and she felt truly sorry for him . |
| 30 | At least to that branch of it that had rooted at Edendale in Southland , NZ , where it was now summer . |