Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd arrived at the Greenwood Theatre too late to hear Jonathan Ross get off his intro-line about Fashanu ‘ scoring ’ at the weekend . |
| 2 | Afterwards we all said that it was good for the game that the transplant of power which had begun at the Sydney Football Stadium in our bi-centennial year had taken so robustly . |
| 3 | Heads of state and government of the 12 member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) met in Luxembourg on June 28-29 to take stock of progress in the negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and European political union ( EPU ) which had opened at the Rome summit in December 1990 [ see pp. 37905-06 ] . |
| 4 | Mona had recovered from whatever embarrassment she had felt at the Eliot knife becoming common knowledge , and said crisply : ‘ I ca n't believe that 's true about Pascoe , Alex . ’ |
| 5 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |
| 6 | ‘ ’ Many the rich cheeses I pressed for ungrateful townsfolk , Yet never did I get home with much money in my pocket , ’ ' quoted Bacci , who had studied at the Liceo Classico . |
| 7 | Maureen , 44 — who had worked at the Gateshead mill for ten years — declared : ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had put my name to it . |
| 8 | We had stayed at the Soleil d'Or , a little hotel as warm-hearted as its name . |
| 9 | It was cold in London compared to the unnatural steamy heat they 'd suffered at the Paul Ricard circuit . |
| 10 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 11 | In addition , he had called at the Fleming house where he had got no reply to his bell-ringing . |
| 12 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 13 | He had served at the Khyber Pass and said he recognised the place at once . ’ |
| 14 | For the first two minutes Charlie defended himself well , using the ropes and the corner as he ducked and dived , remembering every skill he had learned at the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 15 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 16 | The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously . |