Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [noun] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said somebody like a middle-aged woman would be best who 's got grown up children at work |
| 2 | BANBRIDGE Council has been told that anglers have given up fishing at Loughbrickland Lake because the fish stock has been completely destroyed by cormorants . |
| 3 | A few weeks earlier that same candidate had drawn the member of parliament 's attention to ‘ one David Denholm an old worn out officer at Thorntonloch nigh Dunglass in East Lothian who is about being supperannuated ’ . |
| 4 | They have fresh virgin coupons , not like those burnt out ones at DPR ! " |
| 5 | Twelve hours after the fire started , police and fire fighters were able to recover the man 's body from burnt out cottage at Pamington near Tewkesbury . |
| 6 | Twelve hours after the fire started , police and fire fighters were able to recover the man 's body from burnt out cottage at Pamington near Tewkesbury . |
| 7 | The stylistic values associated with the linguistic data must be largely taken on trust at present ; in subsequent chapters , we shall endeavour to show how these values , too , can be studied systematically . |
| 8 | No 6888 was built as C-47A-1 by Douglas at Oklahoma City as 42–92320 , but diverted to the RAF , becoming Dakota III FZ572 and was taken on charge at Nassau in December 1943 , joining the SAAF as 6821 the following month and served with 5 Wing ( 28 and 44 Squadrons ) until joining SAA as ZS-BXF in August 1948 . |
| 9 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 10 | In 1846 these lime and Roman cement workings were purchased by William Lee , a lime burner from Burham who had already taken up residence at Holborough Court three years earlier . |
| 11 | In the eighteen months since Mrs Thatcher had taken up employment at Dickins and Jones , the mood of the Party had perceptibly changed for the better , the great bulk of the membership having transferred its loyalty smoothly from the old Leader to the new . |