Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [noun] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , it is perfectly possible to buy second-hand or reconditioned models at a fraction of the price of new ones as long as you are prepared to accept the risk that they might eventually develop faults which could prove expensive . |
| 2 | It was an event , akin to the sinking of the Titanic , that rocked society at a moment of supreme self-congratulation and brought home to a people intoxicated with science and progress the existence of an admonitory Deity . |
| 3 | He gained his first knowledge of practical politics as a member of the London county council , and entered Parliament at a by-election in Lewisham West in 1938 , retaining the seat till the Conservative débâcle of 1945 . |
| 4 | He attended the Liverpool School of Pharmacy and began work at a pharmacy in Blackpool where he met his future wife Betty . |
| 5 | A NURSE smiled and pulled faces at a friend just before a van ploughed into the back of her car , causing fatal injuries . |
| 6 | It is believed she claimed she was assaulted and kept captive at a friend 's flat in Chelsea after Sarfraz gave her a lift in his car . |
| 7 | Embraces and handshakes were shared by the marchers before they broke bread and sang hymns at a cross carried to the peace line . |
| 8 | Dacourt shrugged and bawled orders at a servant . |
| 9 | The introduction of F. W. Bateson as a regular reviewer from this same issue marks a more consistent and considered attempt at a settlement with modernist literature and criticism . |