Example sentences of "they [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met at a party in the mid '80s . |
| 2 | They met at a dance . |
| 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 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 6 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 7 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 8 | ‘ They lived at a place called the Half House . |
| 9 | SINGER Cher and her Bon Jovi guitarist toyboy Richie Sambora , right , fuelled rumours of a wedding as they hugged at a London party . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But they agreed at a meeting on Saturday that they would take whatever steps were necessary to protect their colliery . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | They rode at a gentle trot . |
| 14 | and they sold at a very low price and |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 18 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 19 | They stopped at a roadside café for something to eat and were wished bon appetit , without a trace of sarcasm , by the lorry drivers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 22 | They stopped at a body which had n't been identified . |
| 23 | Some while later they stopped at a large setting loom , manned by five men ‘ beating up ’ , as Natasha explained , the chenille fur . |
| 24 | They stopped at a Motta bar . |
| 25 | Out in the country again , they walked down several small roads until finally they stopped at a house surrounded by a high wall . |
| 26 | They stopped at a red light . |
| 27 | They stopped at a launderette . |
| 28 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 29 | They stopped at a red light . |
| 30 | At a little after one of the sunny afternoon clock they stopped at a vast motorway services area thingy . |