Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun pl] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the Houston Post reported that Kay Bailey Hutchison , the favoured Republican candidate , had occasionally slapped and pinched her employees at the state treasurer 's office . |
| 2 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 3 | ‘ Araminta wanted me to clear up first , ’ Theda answered , trying to still the flutter that had attacked her pulses at the touch of his hand on her arm . |
| 4 | No word had come from Rose , and surely she would have cancelled their arrangements at the least hint of scandal ? |
| 5 | Luca Giordano , Elisa went on , thinking that she had placed her hosts at a disadvantage , was a particular favourite of hers and she could easily see why he was regarded as one of Naples ' finest painters . |
| 6 | By the end of the century , use of drugs in cases of terminal illness was more common ; but many would have shaken their heads at the thought of patients dying drugged , as is the norm today . |
| 7 | CAGNEY and Lacey actress Sharon Gless , who is currently in London starring in Misery at the Criterion , has treated her colleagues at the theatre to her favourite Haagen-Dazs ice cream . |
| 8 | ‘ There is considerable danger here of drawing the conclusion that because the two sets of bones were found in conjunction and on the same date , they must have met their deaths at the same time . |
| 9 | He has met his brothers at the fair which accompanies the hiring but otherwise there has been no joy ; certainly nothing to bring to his wife , Emily , who has been driven up to the town and found refuge in the house of a local schoolmaster , Mr Stephens . |
| 10 | ‘ If we discover the SDLP and Alliance Party requested their meetings at the same time or later , there will be one major political row , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The American embassy in Beijing is said to have received envelopes containing a few yuan as contributions from ordinary Chinese to the war effort ; and young would-be volunteer fighters have offered their services at the Kuwaiti and Saudi embassies . |
| 12 | On Feb. 14 it was reported that the three most senior Tadjik leaders had all offered their resignations at a meeting with the unofficial Vaadad ( " Unity " ) People 's Committee , formed shortly after the outbreak of the Dushanbe violence and uniting government representatives and activists from the Popular Front-style Rastokhez ( " Revival " ) organization . |
| 13 | Citibank , for example , will refund the difference if a customer finds he has not bought his goods at the best advertised price . |
| 14 | The organization had already terminated its activities at the outbreak of war , although members still met unofficially in Gilbert 's house . |
| 15 | On this occasion , their leaders have dragged their heels at every stage , without giving any of the ideas a chance . |
| 16 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 17 | Imagine that firms have set their prices at the end of period 0 to give a price level of P in periods 1 and 2 . |
| 18 | It is expected , however , that the Irishman will make known his views at a later date . |
| 19 | But after Richie had pulled his strings at the Home Office it was agreed that a little deception could be practised . |
| 20 | It is no accident that Schickelgruber , the failed artist who became Hitler , should have been the son of a petty official and have spent his ambitions at the butt end of Viennese snobbery . |
| 21 | How the more distinguished men must have gnashed their teeth at the trivial basis upon which great decisions are made — but how delighted they must be today not to be branded with the title of court architect ! |
| 22 | Students were a group already singled out for special attention in the effort to keep out the ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ which had influenced their predecessors at the turn of the century . |
| 23 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 24 | Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart . |
| 25 | Haiti 's military rulers have thumbed their noses at the U S. The murders of pro-Aristide politicians , a deliberate attempt to sabotage the return to democracy . |
| 26 | He had learned his languages at the highly sophisticated KGB school in Leningrad . |
| 27 | But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads . |
| 28 | Sixty people have already lost their jobs at the Norfolk Smokehouses food processing plant . |
| 29 | In the past year a hundred and fifty people have lost their jobs at the Newport Pagnell site . |
| 30 | However , they are so often held back with comments such as ‘ you are too young ’ , ‘ we can not trust you ’ , ‘ your time will come ’ — time and time again I have heard the same complaint by those who have achieved their goals at an early age . |