Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hollyoake lived at the house in Belper , Derbys , with her husband and their 16-year-old daughter . |
| 2 | Florrie gazed at the letter in her hands . |
| 3 | Still muttering the word justice , Yeremi gazed at the quatrefoil viewscreen . |
| 4 | One ex-sailor whom Minton met at the Mandrake was Joshua ( ‘ Mike ’ ) Avery , then just embarking on his discovery of Soho and sharing a room with Daniel Farson . |
| 5 | Dominic Arnold trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , both in television and at Glasgow 's Citizens ' Theatre . |
| 6 | Nassim winced at the sound of breaking glass from the bathroom , but it was only the remaining splinters of the old stuff coming down . |
| 7 | Pascoe peered at the drink before putting the glass to his lips , as if drinking it at all was a risky thing . |
| 8 | Ward peered at the control panel . |
| 9 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 10 | The prince was so impressed that he had a Polish translation made , brought a scenic engineer from Mantua for a ‘ fisher idyll ’ Galatea produced at the Warsaw court , and on his accession to the throne in 1632 built a theatre in his palace where a whole series of Italian operas specially composed by members of the Royal Chapel was given . |
| 11 | Ceauşescu admitted at the beginning of the 1980s that it was easier to change the economy and society than people themselves : ‘ As you can see , we have had an easy time constructing factories . |
| 12 | Gorbachev announced at the RSFSR Supreme Soviet on Aug. 23 that he and Yeltsin had each agreed to take over the other 's functions if an emergency so demanded . |
| 13 | Bravd winked at the Weasel and went to investigate the shape that they assumed was a pack animal . |
| 14 | Scott gazed at the photos , then at their faces . |
| 15 | Meredith trembled at the tenderness in his tone . |
| 16 | ‘ I went to see her , actually ’ Delia Sutherland mused at the pen she was threading in and out of her fingers . |
| 17 | Rex gaped at the cab driver in the soiled jumpsuit . |
| 18 | Bernice knelt at the wall , pressing her ear against the stone . |
| 19 | UCG rallied at the beginning of the second half , Lorcan Dowd scoring a great goal , and Tony Maher then cutting the deficit to two points . |
| 20 | Dr Murdoch studied at the University of Exeter and at Jesus College , Cambridge . |
| 21 | Galvone gestured at the carpet . |
| 22 | Shiona parked at the front , instead of at the side of the house where everyone normally parked their cars , and , pushing back her hair , headed for the front door . |
| 23 | Ramsey arrived at the university in October 1923 . |
| 24 | The Glasgow Hilton opened at the end of 1992 |
| 25 | Shiona frowned at the phone in total bewilderment . |
| 26 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |
| 27 | Martin Brundle arrived at the circuit with a mint-fresh six-litre Jaguar XJR-S on load for the day from Tom Walkinshaw Racing , a company connected with the Benetton F1 team for which Brundle is driving this season . |
| 28 | Last week Sylvestra opened at the Barbican as Kate to Owen Teale 's Hotspur in Henry IV Part 1 . |
| 29 | However , Gorbachev arrived at the plenum with his political standing newly boosted by the surprise announcement of the pact with Yeltsin and the other republican leaders [ see above ] , and this appeared to play a decisive role in the motion 's defeat . |
| 30 | Then , in the winter of 1085 , Alfonso arrived at the gates of Saragossa and laid siege to the city . |