Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 2 | The Wolverines ' stock of blast and frag grenades would likewise be of little avail , though since each grenade hardly bulked larger than a coin the Scouts could at least retain their pursefuls of those in case they needed to kill at a distance . |
| 3 | Linda 's family were visiting from Ireland and after visiting Thorpe Park in Surrey , they decided to stop at a pub on the way home . |
| 4 | They paused to stare at a cistern hanging on the wall next to a wash basin , the rest of the house having disappeared . |
| 5 | Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . |
| 6 | they had met at a number of police conferences . |
| 7 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 8 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 9 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 10 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 11 | The story is that four kings were on a journey to their coronation when , on the way , they wanted to stay at a hotel . |