Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 2 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 3 | He got off the bike at the bridge and left it propped against the suspension cables , then walked to the middle of the swaying bridge , where the gate is . |
| 4 | That 's all they got off the union at that time of the day . |
| 5 | After Muir of Ord JTR got off the train at Conon Station as did I , and walked down by the river to sketch from the Telford bridge of 1809 now replaced by a modern version built in 1969 . |
| 6 | Everyone got off the train at Winnipeg , one thousand , four hundred and thirteen miles along the rails from Toronto . |
| 7 | FORTY fans who got off the train at Peterborough and tried to board a ferry at |
| 8 | It was not so , at the beginning of each new term she found it was not so , but it seemed to be so , and the same mixture of guilt and hate and sorrow would strike her anew , each time as forcefully , each time she got off the train at Northam Station . |
| 9 | I got off the train at Greenwich — it was a fine evening — I was just walking … |
| 10 | I got off the train at Central Station . |
| 11 | She got off the bus at the next stop , and went back to the building , pushing the children in a collapsible pushchair , which had a propensity only to collapse when occupied . |
| 12 | They got off the bus at Holborn and got a train to Mile End , from there taking another train to Ilford . |
| 13 | When she got off the bus at her usual stop , even the moderate leafiness of the district contributed to her hopes , and she saw , fleetingly , the features that caused it to be described by others as a desirable residential area . |
| 14 | She squelched through the mud at a half-trot and hoped with all her heart that someone , after all this agony , would be in ; a kind , exceptionally friendly family would be nice ; the elder son could be a brilliant mechanic and would mend her jeep with the proverbial wave of his spanner , the mother could be a fantastic cook . |
| 15 | He said ‘ The front door was locked , so I got through the window at the back . |
| 16 | Standing up , he gazed through the window at the massive gritstone ridge which stood against the sky on the other side of the main dale . |
| 17 | At the suggestion of the Delta Commander he applied for a post at UNACO and was finally accepted six weeks later after a succession of exhaustive interviews . |
| 18 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 19 | I applied for a job at Anglia as a news reporter . |
| 20 | His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 21 | He applied for the job at Hoggatt 's , of course , and was runner-up to Howarth . " |
| 22 | His future career then seemed uncertain : he qualified for the bar at the Inner Temple , ran a hostel for disadvantaged boys , Edghill House , Sydenham ( 1913–15 ) , and then began schoolmastering at Strand School , Brixton . |
| 23 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 24 | The second interview asked about the situation at year end 1991–2 ; the budget for 1992–3 ; contracts for 1992–3 ; management and organisational changes ; patient services ; information handling ; and fundholding in the next three to four years . |
| 25 | He raised the lid , gazed for an instant at the contents and quietly blew away the dust from the tops of the brightly coloured pots . |
| 26 | It firstly boldly asked for a seat at the top table at the European Community : a suggestion rudely rebuffed . |
| 27 | Western Isles ) asked for an assurance at question time that bursaries for Project 2000 nurses would not be turned into loans . |
| 28 | On her return to Britain in 1924 , Sophy Sanger read for the bar at Gray 's Inn , qualifying in June 1928 . |
| 29 | For the determination of total carnitine , 150 ml of ammonia ( 33% ) was added to two tubes and incubated for an hour at 37°C . |
| 30 | They crossed over quietly enough , Athelstan smiling as he passed through the gateway at the far end on to Fish Street Hill . |