Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | His ill-looks are a punishment received when he failed to appear at a fairy festival , preferring to spend his time with a mortal maiden . |
2 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
3 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
4 | The feminists had divined that , who once , when she rose to speak at a meeting , had hissed and cat-called , assuming her crowning glory to be the seductive and marketable product of an inhumanely tested bottle . |
5 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
6 | He chanced to resurface at a moment in the film when the divine Ms Rau is indulging in carnal acrobatics with the leading male actor . |
7 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
8 | In time I learnt to tell at a glance , from the decorations he wore , how often a man had killed , just as I might tell from his campaign medals where a British soldier had served . |
9 | The survey was a comparison between self-service and counter-service grocers and the student was puzzled that the old lady claimed to shop at a counter-service yet all her answers suggested that she used a self-service shop . |
10 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
11 | The Party 's best known members , Jonathan Porritt and Sara Parkin , declined to stand at a ballot to elect two Green Party political speakers . |
12 | The Wolverines ' stock of blast and frag grenades would likewise be of little avail , though since each grenade hardly bulked larger than a coin the Scouts could at least retain their pursefuls of those in case they needed to kill at a distance . |
13 | ‘ When he heard that you wanted to be near Marilla , he decided to teach at a school in another village . |
14 | Linda 's family were visiting from Ireland and after visiting Thorpe Park in Surrey , they decided to stop at a pub on the way home . |
15 | So I left , and went to stay at a friend 's . |
16 | He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage . |
17 | I was surprised that , at this level , mental processing appeared to operate at a speed 3 to 5 times slower for less able primary 7 pupils . |
18 | He would have done the same in her position if he had to appear at a press conference — appearance was important to Dexter . |
19 | As we passed over the Thames we paused to look at a steamer unloading great slabs of white and brown marble . |
20 | They paused to stare at a cistern hanging on the wall next to a wash basin , the rest of the house having disappeared . |
21 | Last night ministers continued to look at a compromise prepared by the EC commissioner Sir Leon Brittan , incorporating a Dutch-led formula where the higher level would be the norm but governments would have the option of asking Brussels to intervene for mergers breaking £1.4bn . |
22 | Then James had to look at a tray containing 20 objects and , when the tray was removed , see how many he could remember . |
23 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
24 | Coleridge wished to study at a university ; he went to Ratzeburg and Göttingen , enjoying himself immensely , and stayed till July 1799 . |
25 | But , as I read the piece , I waited to arrive at a Government Health Warning , that sketching in court can seriously damage your reputation , not to mention your freedom ! |
26 | But , as I read the piece , I waited to arrive at a Government Health Warning , that sketching in court can seriously damage your reputation , not to mention your freedom ! |
27 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
28 | In December 1987 the cost-of-living index was 170 per cent above its level in December of the previous year , and even under the ‘ price freeze ’ of the first few months of 1988 , prices continued to rise at a rate equivalent to an annual rate of about 100 per cent . |
29 | Peckle hardly moved but continued to peer at a document covered in strange cipher markings . |
30 | But it continued to trade at a loss and in November 1987 the Society implemented one of PW 's original recommendations by calling in its loan . |