Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 2 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 3 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 4 | Alan never said anything at the time , but Willy vanished from Oxford shortly afterwards . |
| 5 | Daniel Marsh usually met him at the station , but today Nahum was early . |
| 6 | Tony Coton apparently embraced him at the end and gave him soime words of encouragement . |
| 7 | Rogers and Brett immediately flanked him at the foot of the steps and walked with him as he shook hands with each member of the Zimbalan mission in turn . |
| 8 | Juliet even surprised herself at the bitter words spilling over . |
| 9 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |