Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outbreak has been traced to a function held at Uncle Dick 's Restaurant . |
| 2 | A warder stood at one end of the infirmary , standing by a thick metal door . |
| 3 | Such a case occurred at Kirkcaldy in 1828 . |
| 4 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 5 | When I finally decided I could n't dawdle over my coffee any longer , a decision arrived at long before by the hard-eyed blonde in charge of the cash register , I climbed back in the heap and headed home . |
| 6 | The famous aqueduct seen working by St Cuthbert remains elusive , but a water tank inside the portico of a building uncovered at Tullie House was presumably fed by it . |
| 7 | In the convention used here , a plus sign signifies that a response was obtained at onset at that position , a minus sign that a response occurred at offset , and O means that no response was obtained there or outside that position . |
| 8 | Behind it , across an empty mile , a ridge looked at itself in a mirage lake . |
| 9 | 25 ( From left to right : a ) Julius Caesar , portrayed on a coin minted at Rome in 44 BC , the year of his assassination . |
| 10 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 11 | Again the camera plane turned , and they swung to follow it ; and between them and the Line three trim shapes plunged in and out of cloud in a dive pointed at the F2B . |
| 12 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 13 | In April and June 1985 , 316 prisoners and 135 prisoners respectively , were injured ( Guardian , August 10 1985 ) , and in June a demonstration occurred at Holloway by 43 women protesting about brutality inflicted upon a fellow prisoner . |
| 14 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 15 | Hundreds of fans turned out to see a plaque unveiled at Joe 's birthplace , Number One , Market Place in Newent . |
| 16 | Suddenly , a light appeared at a window and a terrified face peered out . |
| 17 | A LIGHT emerged at the end of the tunnel for Greatham road safety campaigners last week . |
| 18 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 19 | Danes are in effect voting on a deal negotiated at last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh , which gave them opt-outs on sensitive issues such as a common currency , joint security , police controls and citizenship rules . |
| 20 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 21 | I can remember the very first time it happened — I was out walking the dog with my mum and a car tooted at us , and my mum said , ‘ Oh , someone thinks your bottom 's nice ’ . |
| 22 | A car hooted at him . |
| 23 | Suddenly , a car appeared at the end of the short stretch of road beyond his men . |
| 24 | Two people were badly hurt when a car crashed at Darlington Back Lane , Whinney Hill , Stockton , just after 11pm yesterday . |
| 25 | One of Sam 's daughters knocked at the front door until a key landed at her feet , dropped painfully from a bedroom window . |
| 26 | A constable appeared at the door to say that DI Eddy Russell was on the phone for the superintendent . |
| 27 | But , especially , they show that whenever a siege occurred at neighbouring villages invariably suffered a s a result of heavy billeting , garrisoning , or even the mustering of armies on their greens and in their fields . |
| 28 | Oh yes , it 's in Scotland , you see , and whilst there , you see , every day er because a lady laughed at me and she said , she was staying in the same hotel and she said er I , I used to book up in advance of course but never took a chance . |
| 29 | Some days before the rescue centre collected the dogs , a lady enquired at the Oxford police station about two missing Rough Collies . |
| 30 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |