Example sentences of "they [vb past] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met at a dance . |
| 2 | They met at a party in the mid '80s . |
| 3 | Helena Lisandrello says she had an affair with the actor after they met at a party in 1979 . |
| 4 | They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) . |
| 5 | ‘ They lived at a place called the Half House . |
| 6 | They agreed at a meeting in Edinburgh yesterday to urge the Government to seek changes in legislation so that tenants who have bought their homes with the benefit of a discount are debarred from buying council houses with similar concessions on a second or more occasions . |
| 7 | But they agreed at a meeting on Saturday that they would take whatever steps were necessary to protect their colliery . |
| 8 | ‘ And they said they was just farmers , like us , ’ mused Jonadab , as they rode at a walk through the high arched entrance and into the stable-yard . |
| 9 | Clearly these regulations were meant to confine carried-out timber to that fit only for firewood , but in 1792 complaints were still being made of enormous losses of timber through yard workers , who even finished work early to allow themselves time to saw up useful lengths , which they sold at a shilling each . |
| 10 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 11 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 12 | They stopped at a Motta bar . |
| 13 | They stopped at a launderette . |
| 14 | They stopped at a body which had n't been identified . |
| 15 | Out in the country again , they walked down several small roads until finally they stopped at a house surrounded by a high wall . |
| 16 | They stopped at a roadside café for something to eat and were wished bon appetit , without a trace of sarcasm , by the lorry drivers . |
| 17 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 18 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 19 | It was hot , dusty work checking endless fencing and huge flocks of sheep ; so every now and then they stopped at a trough at one of the wells , so that Jester could drink and his owner could splash his face and arms in the water . |
| 20 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 21 | They trained at a farmhouse in the hills just outside Perugia . |
| 22 | They camped at a kouse ground called Aipadass , west of Camas Prairie , having severed Howard 's supply line . |
| 23 | They ate at a card-table , which they unfolded and folded again , after . |
| 24 | The second in line to the throne was still known officially as ‘ Baby Wales ’ and it took the couple several days of discussion before they arrived at a name . |
| 25 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |
| 26 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 27 | Camden and Islington councils , meanwhile , have given the Met a free copy of LAFIS — a computer programme which they developed at a cost of £15 million , and sold to other authorities for about £2 million a throw . |
| 28 | They worked at a pitch only experienced in times of disaster such as earthquake or war . |
| 29 | They decided at a meeting of the Labour group of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane yesterday to set up a working group to prepare for a referendum . |
| 30 | What they did at a branch on our district erm , again it was just like set up , people were given specific tasks , but at the end of the three month cycle , they 'd change some people , er , those people 's tasks so that they , so they would n't get stagnant , and plus , if one person was off , if you happened to be on holiday , you 've got somebody else that can do the job at the standard and not let the standard fall . |