Example sentences of "[vb past] at the big [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch .
2 Einstein 's general theory of relativity , on its own , predicted that space-time began at the big bang singularity and would come to an end either at the big crunch singularity ( if the whole universe recollapsed ) , or at a singularity inside a black hole ( if a local region , such as a star , were to collapse ) .
3 I stopped and looked at the big house .
4 Sylvie , the cook , sat at the big kitchen table by the window , writing a list and shooing pigeons away .
5 Then she sat at the big table with only a pot of tea for herself while Frankie and his father cleared their plates in silence .
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