Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Breathlessly , Belinda arrived at the artist 's side , her cheeks burning at having to intrude on a conversation that was just getting established again after Greg 's tactless attempt at humour . |
| 32 | When we started rehearsing , we arrived at the cello 's first entry and he came in with a dreadful slow grumbling noise . |
| 33 | This desperate cry for help eventually arrived at the parson 's house in Emminster . |
| 34 | By 9 a.m. the shore party reported a swift victory and shortly after the first reluctant emigrant arrived at the ship 's side . |
| 35 | In keeping with the increasingly presidential style of his campaign , Mr Kinnock arrived at the city 's docklands development by helicopter , and released 1,992 balloons to symbolise Southampton 's links with Europe . |
| 36 | It was mid-afternoon when they arrived at the compound 's rear gate . |
| 37 | Baldwin did not get the King 's message until he arrived at the Travellers ' Club for lunch . |
| 38 | The play opened at the Queen 's Theatre at the end of November 1963 to less than rapturous applause . |
| 39 | The Guisborough public took their first chance to see the bypass plans yesterday when an exhibition opened at the town 's library . |
| 40 | The local communities had to pay for the equipment of the men selected and their expenses until they reached the county boundary , after which they served at the king 's wages . |
| 41 | It was ten minutes before she returned at a snail 's pace with four rum punches . |
| 42 | Momentarily , Jaq flinched at the creature 's hypnotic gaze , even seen through the medium of the screen , and although he was psychically immune . |
| 43 | The incident happened on Thursday afternoon in Holborn Hill , Ormskirk , when a man knocked at the pensioner 's door offering to cut the hedge . |
| 44 | Later she knocked at the star 's dressing room door , and her stomach turned over when she saw who was with her . |
| 45 | She glanced at the winners ' enclosure . |
| 46 | He marvelled at the girl 's patience as her charge ran hither and thither , collecting shells and seaweed , splashing in the waves at the water 's edge , letting out little shrieks of excitement and then relapsing into relative quietness when food and drink were produced out of a knapsack . |
| 47 | His expression was inscrutable , but his hands were clenched so tightly into fists that Meredith marvelled at the man 's ability to keep the muscles of his face so impassive . |
| 48 | Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness . |
| 49 | Allen pulled out his knife and jabbed at the animal 's flank where the stirrup hung . |
| 50 | Five reed buntings preened at the pool 's edge . |
| 51 | New Forum , which had first emerged in September 1989 [ see p. 36895 ] , decided at a delegates ' conference in Leipzig on Jan. 6 not to form a political party but to remain a citizens ' movement which was " open to citizens of different ideological and party opinions " . |
| 52 | Mr Venables of Lilac Grove , Whitby , Ellesmere Port , collapsed at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going out for a drink in May . |
| 53 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 54 | After graduating from the Harbin Military Technology Institute , she worked at the People 's Liberation Army General Staff headquarters . |
| 55 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
| 56 | He breakfasted at The Wife 's Legs . |
| 57 | She rang his office , and then panicked at the secretary 's voice , and put the receiver down without speaking . |
| 58 | When that time was up an envoy from the Iranian Embassy in Paris had been violently beaten up when he called at the shipowner 's apartment . |
| 59 | The next meeting came when Chapman called at the player 's sports shop in Sunderland to ask him if he would agree to move to Arsenal . |
| 60 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |