Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 2 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 3 | This was an heirloom from the time of King Alexander 1 ‘ Philhellene ’ as he was later called ; it was a prize won at the Argive Games to Hera ( SEG xxix 652 , cp. xi 330 = xxx 52 ) . |
| 4 | Gloucester have never won at the Recreation Ground … the league champions look invincible … but that 's when the Kingsholm men are at their best … when nobody gives them a hope … |
| 5 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 6 | The family was posted to Sussex in 1847 and Dresser was educated at the Government School of Design at Somerset House in London from 1847 to 1854 . |
| 7 | A surgeon 's son , he was educated at the Dragon School , Oxford , St Paul 's School , London , Jesus College , Cambridge , and St Thomas 's Hospital , where he qualified in 1946 . |
| 8 | She was educated at the Art School in Gower Street and then at Mrs Hill 's School , where she met Octavia Hill , John Ruskin , Charles Kingsley , and F. D. Maurice [ qq.v . ] . |
| 9 | He was educated at the Oratory School , Birmingham ( 1878–84 ) and read history at Trinity College , Oxford ( 1884–8 ) , gaining a second class in modern history in 1888 . |
| 10 | He was educated at the village school and at Glasgow University . |
| 11 | Set , like many of her titles , in a fictional Irish village , it tells the stories of eight children who have been educated at the village school and who have carved their names on the beech tree standing by the school house . |
| 12 | He was educated at the village school , learning to read and write , but otherwise he was self-taught . |
| 13 | He was educated at the village school in Buckland , and from 1862 at Culham Teacher Training College , near Oxford , gaining a first-class certificate there in 1864 . |
| 14 | He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe . |
| 15 | Cooke was educated at the village dame school until he was ten , and then to the age of thirteen by his uncle , James Cubitt , a Baptist minister in Ilford , who shortly afterwards moved to Stratford upon Avon . |
| 16 | He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 . |
| 17 | He was educated at the Perse School and at Christ 's College , Cambridge ( senior scholar ) . |
| 18 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School , and studied medicine for one year at St Francis Xavier College , Bruges . |
| 19 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School . |
| 20 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School until , aged about fourteen , he had a cross tattooed on his breast in token of a momentous religious experience , and became a teacher . |
| 21 | Spence was educated at the parish school in Brechin , but began his working life very early , apprenticed to a grocer , an uncle , in Perth . |
| 22 | He was educated at the grammar schools of Lostwithiel and Plymouth , and tutored by the Revd Thomas Byrth [ q.v. ] of Diptford , before matriculating at Oxford in 1824 . |
| 23 | He was educated at the Palace School , Enfield , before unenthusiastically joining the family firm . |
| 24 | Born in Kilmarnock and educated at the Langside School for the Deaf , Glasgow , he began his adult career as an apprentice brass-finisher , but this vocation was never enough for him . |
| 25 | He was educated at the Collège de Genève and entered the University of Aberdeen in 1874 , where he graduated MB in 1878 and MD in 1881 . |
| 26 | This intracellular fluorescence was located at the brush border region and a granular staining was observed apically within the enterocytes ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 27 | And just to make sure that everything was fair and above-board , the computer , like the facilities for tapping phones , would be located at the law courts , safely out of the hands of the police . |
| 28 | But , according to Home Office memos shown both to New Scientist and to Computing magazine , ‘ the computer systems might be linked to form a distributed network encompassing the whole country ’ , with the centre of the network located at the Home Office ADP unit in Merseyside . |
| 29 | Swollen plant tissues , so-called galls , located at the tree trunk would be genetically programmed to use the solar energy captured in the leaves for generating hydrogen gas as a by-product of photosynthesis . |
| 30 | Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound . |