Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun sg] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An American army sergeant arrived at the airport one day who befriended me and he was in charge of an artillery spotting plane called the Piper Cub which they gave a small corner of the airfield to . |
| 2 | ‘ But on our wedding day , I arrived at the church twenty minutes before you . |
| 3 | The only real difference was that when the weather was favourable we arrived at the site one hour before dawn to set the nets . |
| 4 | Ianthe arrived at the library five minutes before she need have done . |
| 5 | He worked at the course twelve hours a day and found it exhausting but staggeringly easy . |
| 6 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you had a king-sized crush on that singer we had at the club three weeks ago . |
| 8 | I was just congratulating myself on negotiating the first and second holes fairly well when disaster struck at the 142-yard par-three third . |
| 9 | Management at Walworth Castle Hotel in Walworth , Darlington , saw a dramatic upturn in the number of American tourists who stayed at the Grade 1 listed building last year . |