Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Norwich City and Scotland striker , a figure of such unmitigated misfortune that money deserted him at the height of what ought to have been a highly lucrative and rewarding career .
2 Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 .
3 " His father says that Lorrimer rang him at a quarter to nine .
4 Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them .
5 They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back .
6 The next tunnel forked , turned left , turned right again , and other tunnels led off from it ; and Fand led them at an even pace along a course that seemed to have no sense .
7 Rich and Syb met me at the station .
8 Nurses volunteer their services when they wish to work and managers engage them at the times required .
9 You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling .
10 When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door .
11 Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition .
12 Because of the extensive location work , Dustin , who disliked being away from his family for any length of time , insisted on Anne and Karina joining him at a house he had rented in Billings , Montana .
13 But people reached her at the office and the office had a rule banning employees ' home addresses being revealed .
14 Reporters waited outside her apartment day and night , while photographers badgered her at the Young England kindergarten where she worked .
15 Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey .
16 The bleeding persisted and Jean was very weak when Jim left her at the maternity ward .
17 She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ .
18 Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself .
19 He was obviously well-known because people nodded to him , smiled , glanced curiously at her as Feargal sat her at a small table at the rear .
20 As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion .
21 He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) .
22 As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’
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