Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A favourite place was Newbeggin-in-Teesdale where they stayed at a farm and where he learned to ride . |
| 2 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 3 | There was-no sign of a mansion , so I knocked at a cottage door and enquired . |
| 4 | The newsagent 's , alas , was closed , so I looked at a couple of travel posters , then wandered back . |
| 5 | Once I ran at a fair in the noise |
| 6 | It was too late to go to the campsite , or even to get a bus out of town , so we stopped at a hotel where they worried about us and charged too much for Coke . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 8 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 9 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 10 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 11 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |
| 12 | We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu . |
| 13 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 14 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
| 15 | The conversation about oxtail had made her realise how hungry she was and she stopped at a delicatessen shop on the way home and bought a pizza . |
| 16 | If she fell at a fence he could not avoid trampling her . |
| 17 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 18 | Now the big mistake was this it was n't of ve of very great importance who governed North er North or South Korea , er they were n't particularly important strategic areas , they did n't have er important ports or , or er or base facilities or any resources then erm the mistake was in fact to directly challenge Chinese security , and if you looked at a map you 'll see in fact how this er came about . |
| 19 | Kāli chose the steeper , shorter route to the forest and we climbed at a leisurely pace , stopping occasionally to catch our breath , lurching drunkenly and bumping into each other when the gradient increased and we were too lazy to keep up our momentum . |
| 20 | The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace . |
| 21 | and they sold at a very low price and |
| 22 | Loretta refused with a laugh , and they continued at a more sedate pace . |
| 23 | They had cups of sweet milky tea and they sat at a table . |
| 24 | Inside the bar they descended again into the dining alcove , and they sat at a table by a small-paned window which was back on a level with the path outside . |
| 25 | He told Farrel he had no objection if he wanted to take Rose to a discotheque , provided they returned at a reasonable hour . |
| 26 | They followed the stretcher until they arrived at a large tent which had a hastily painted sign slung across its front . |
| 27 | Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it . |
| 28 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 29 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 30 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |