Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 32 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
| 33 | The world 's most famous footballer declined to turn up at the Argentine team camp until late on Tuesday night , 48 hours later than most of his team-mates . |
| 34 | Tallis followed glancing back at the huge carvings , their grotesque faces watching her , some compassionately , some with mocking expressions . |
| 35 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 36 | Remembering Philippe Bonard 's invitation to use the pool whenever she wished , she decided to call in at the Auberge de la Fontaine and pick up her swimming costume . |
| 37 | He added : ‘ Looking back , I feel that relationships between me and the team started to break down at the Hungarian Grand Prix . ’ |
| 38 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
| 39 | The singer failed to turn up at the gig at London 's Finsbury Park after he faced a barrage of missiles thrown by fans during Saturday 's performance . |
| 40 | A GRIEVING family has hit out at witnesses who failed to turn up at the trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of their son . |
| 41 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 42 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 43 | I managed to glare back at the boy , who went on chewing . |
| 44 | Linearity appeared to fall off at the -90dB level , not of much concern , and there was a small amount of high frequency hash in the output at -78dB . |
| 45 | A lot of people did look out at the station , but they saw nothing strange . |
| 46 | Er your worships , the one remaining summonses , the one relating to the fact that his vehicle er , was n't taxed at the time of the accident and , I think er he he will be aware his tax er , did run out at the end of May and this accident happened on the twenty first of June . |
| 47 | Er Your Worships the one remaining summons is the one relating to the fact that his vehicle er was n't taxed at the time of the accident , and I think er you , you will be aware , his tax did run out at the end of May and this accident happened on the twenty first of June . |
| 48 | He cleared his throat once more and resumed staring up at the ceiling . |
| 49 | OVER THE past 20 years the West Indian pace attack has systematically demolished every batting line-up that dared turn up at the same ground . |
| 50 | The Los Angeles directorship , open since Earl A. Powell III agreed to take over at the National Gallery , now belongs to Michael Edward Shapiro , formerly chief curator in St Louis . |
| 51 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 52 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 53 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 54 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 55 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 56 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 57 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 58 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 59 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 60 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |