Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight German tourists were among nine people killed aboard a light aircraft which crashed at a wildlife reserve in Kenya on Dec. 27 . |
| 2 | These questions , among others , exercised a group of educationists who met at a seminar on accountability sponsored by the SSRC and held at Cambridge ( England ) in 1977 . |
| 3 | She admitted being the busty brunette who shouted at a man : ‘ Get a load of these ’ . |
| 4 | The signalman gave them the right of way simultaneously , the Bletchley train flew away and the Newport one remained at a stand with wheels spinning on the greasy rails , the Bletchley passengers waving goodbye to the fist-shaking Newport workmen . |
| 5 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 6 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 7 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 8 | The 16-year-old , who can not be named for legal reasons , was granted bail at Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , on condition he stayed at a residential school run by the local authority until his next court appearance on October 7 . |
| 9 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
| 10 | One notable effect the alternative social format contained lay in the assault upon the senses which occurred at a pragmatic level . |
| 11 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 12 | Clocaenog village he left at a distance on his left hand , and wound his way up into the hills again . |
| 13 | A STREET busker who told a jury he shared Madonna 's views on sex was convicted yesterday of raping a 19-year-old girl he seized at a bus stop . |
| 14 | The rest of the place was empty except for Devlin who sat at a table against the far wall reading a small book , a glass of beer at his hand . |
| 15 | The first of the IBM PCs was designed around the Intel 8088 processor , an eight bit device which ran at a clock speed of 4.77MHz ( we 'll cover clock speeds a little later ) . |
| 16 | A suspected EGPGC member , José Ignacio Villar Regueiro , was killed by a bomb which exploded at a discoteque in Santiago de Compostela on the same evening ; apparently the bomb had accidentally been detonated by the sound equipment . |
| 17 | For a moment she stared at a different Luke . |
| 18 | You might think you 're safe nipping out for a hill-walk in a Parka with nylon fur round the hood , and a pair of trawlerman 's oilskin trousers you bought at a life-boat fund-raising stall , but that 's the day you 'll bump into Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert with a film crew making Highlander 3 . |
| 19 | The Woman was sitting round to the right , beside a television , and as soon as she saw Tug she waved at a chair . |
| 20 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 21 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 22 | Only 1 man in 5 had planned the occasion , for 17% it was a one-night stand , for 13% it happened at a party , while 11% say they were drunk at the time . |
| 23 | For two years he taught at a preparatory school in Reigate , before being appointed head of the English department at Stowe by the school 's headmaster , J. F. Roxburgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | The landing was a smooth one , but once we were inside the terminal building everything moved at a snail 's pace , the queue at immigration long and slow moving . |
| 25 | Well it , it , at least it 's gold , I mean , I , I , I was in the jewellery trade when I first left school , between school and national service I worked at a manufacturing jewellers in Birmingham and I 've never really gone along with the idea that nine carat is actually gold . |
| 26 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 27 | On one occasion he kicked at a fence which was enclosing a footpath , saying ' I have no respect for the Whigs , but I have a good deal of the Chartist in me' . |
| 28 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 29 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
| 30 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |