Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 2 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 3 | Throughout his life the author loved and drew inspiration from the whole region , from Smailholm to ‘ Scott 's View ’ above the river Tweed and the house he built for himself at Abbotsford . |
| 4 | His only source of superiority is that Frye fagged for him at school . |
| 5 | I was therefore delighted when one day in May they suddenly reported to me at Luqa . |
| 6 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 7 | Then she gazed past him at Alexei . |
| 8 | She came between them at speed , the air thunderous in her wings , which were more massive than any golden eagle 's he had yet seen or imagined . |
| 9 | ‘ The guy who scored for us at Wembley , Kjetil Rekdal , is mad about English football . |
| 10 | With a joy to his flight that evidently surprised and alarmed them he turned and stooped towards them at speed , not to attack them so much as show them that he was a golden eagle and could fly where he pleased . |
| 11 | Many expressed a desire to be able to get in touch , particularly with others who studied with them at Stirling . |
| 12 | I was getting over the feeling of rejection instilled into me at St Aubyn 's , which by making me aggressive had deprived me of so much that Eton had to offer . |
| 13 | But none of the boys who played with him at St Mark 's Roman Catholic Primary School in Shettleston could ever have guessed they were in the company of a very special talent . |
| 14 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 15 | They sat quietly in Jerusalem until the Spirit came upon them at Pentecost ; then they could not keep quiet about the mighty deeds of God . |
| 16 | According to Florence of Worcester , shortly after Æthelred died in April 1016 certain English churchmen and nobles elected Cnut king , came to him at Southampton , swore fid-elity and repudiated all Æthelred 's progeny ; in return , he vowed to be a good lord in matters both church and lay . |
| 17 | ‘ She came to us at St Sylvester 's , ’ Theodora amplified . |
| 18 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 19 | When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire , he looked the complete tearaway . |
| 20 | At the Forest Eyre which opened before him at Windsor in September 1632 , counsel for the Crown was Sir William Noy , the Attorney-General , a learned lawyer determined to re-establish Forest rights which had long been forgotten . |
| 21 | It rained upon them at Elgin and Johnson again ran into culinary difficulty with a lunch he could not eat at the Red Lion inn . |
| 22 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |
| 23 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 24 | He got into it at school , but his friends moved on . |
| 25 | ‘ I had a great uncle who fought under him at Ladysmith . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I heard about it at school . ’ |
| 27 | Thank you , but I — I do n't know , ’ Merrill demurred , trying to quell the panic that fluttered inside her at Luke 's unexpected appearance . |
| 28 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 29 | I called for him at Faber 's — ; which meant waiting downstairs either du côté de chez Swan or in the small waiting-room crowded with Faber books ready for dispatch — ; and we caught a train to Merstham from Victoria . |
| 30 | Lucy of course was always fun , and I talked to her at Paula 's villa whenever I went there . |