Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 2 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 3 | You know , cos I 'd got it at a P P C as well , for national conference . |
| 4 | The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 6 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 7 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 8 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |
| 9 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 10 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 11 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 12 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
| 13 | The Bosnian Serb parliament rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan even though its leader , Radovan Karadjic , had signed it at a peace conference in Athens . |