Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] 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 | She gazed down at the London horizon , its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings . |
| 4 | Police with truncheons waded in at the San Siro stadium as fighting broke out , although there were no immediate reports of severe injuries . |
| 5 | Most of them correspond with the list your boys drew up at the UN . |
| 6 | So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow . |
| 7 | The Chinese lashed out at the Nobel Prize Committee for meddling in China 's affairs and ‘ hurting the Chinese people 's feelings ’ . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ms Daniels turned up at the Vines Hotel , Lime Street in regal robes leading the Peter Walker shire horses Majestic and Surprise . |
| 11 | It had been Marcus who turned up at the Evans house on Saturday afternoon when Pascoe was there . |
| 12 | That 's why the Death Squad turned up at the San Jacinto Market on 9 April 1980 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When we arrived back at the Grange , Cathy told her father about the visit . |
| 15 | When I arrived back at the Land Rover I met Abdulla , the student teacher , who had been attracted by the breakdown . |
| 16 | The last EF1-11s based at Saudi arrived back at the Oxfordshire base at the weekend . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Petion glanced back at the TARDIS . |
| 20 | And he landed out at the Dardanelles , and here they discovered his age he was away near , he was fif about fifty six or something or fifty eight or something and he was out there in the Dar and they packed him straight back home but oh boy he could tell you the stories about America . |
| 21 | In a statement read out at the Belfast inquest , Mrs O'Hara described how her youngest son had popped out to the shop moments earlier to buy cigarettes and sweets . |
| 22 | Then I called in at the Vecchio Reccione near Stringfellows for a glass of Valpolicella and a bread stick . |
| 23 | Doherty , from Strabane , had joined Derry on a one-month contract after being released at Old Trafford , the intention being to see how things worked out at the Brandywell . |
| 24 | David Mannion , ITN 's editor of ITV programmes , hit back at the BBC in an internal newsletter . |
| 25 | BIG Dave Beasant hit back at the Chelsea fans who booed him off the pitch and blasted : ‘ You 're out of order . ’ |
| 26 | The concern was heightened by small fires which broke out at the Jaslovske Bohunice plant in southern Slovakia , 55 km from the border with Austria , on Jan. 15 , and at the Dukovany plant on Jan. 21 . |
| 27 | Near the end of the second count a fight broke out at the Zuwaya goal because the teller , the secretary to the local Assembly and technically above suspicion , but also Maghrabi and therefore watched very carefully , claimed to have recorded 900 votes . |
| 28 | Some hit out at the IRA . |
| 29 | August 24 — Police hit out at the IRA for ‘ inadequate warning ’ after being given just eight minutes to clear the area at Ormeau Road . |
| 30 | He stared down at the Hoflin farm , then clumped back to the car . |