Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 2 | His ill-looks are a punishment received when he failed to appear at a fairy festival , preferring to spend his time with a mortal maiden . |
| 3 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 4 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 5 | The crucial events around which the case centred occurred at a dinner party given by the General , when Aitken and some others were present . |
| 6 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 7 | The feminists had divined that , who once , when she rose to speak at a meeting , had hissed and cat-called , assuming her crowning glory to be the seductive and marketable product of an inhumanely tested bottle . |
| 8 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 9 | He chanced to resurface at a moment in the film when the divine Ms Rau is indulging in carnal acrobatics with the leading male actor . |
| 10 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 11 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
| 12 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 13 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 14 | Maggie found herself staring directly into the eyes of the young man she 'd noticed at a setting loom on her first day . |
| 15 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 16 | I 'd played at a club in Soho , even backed a few rock bands Lloyd had claimed to manage , and he 'd run a string of female mud wrestlers , mainly in the clip joint next door . |
| 17 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 18 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 19 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 20 | A Canadian reviewer said they looked like people I 'd found at a bus-stop , which I was very flattered by . ’ |
| 21 | In time I learnt to tell at a glance , from the decorations he wore , how often a man had killed , just as I might tell from his campaign medals where a British soldier had served . |
| 22 | Fortunately she 'd learnt at a very early age never to be taken in by good looks alone . |
| 23 | The survey was a comparison between self-service and counter-service grocers and the student was puzzled that the old lady claimed to shop at a counter-service yet all her answers suggested that she used a self-service shop . |
| 24 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 25 | The Party 's best known members , Jonathan Porritt and Sara Parkin , declined to stand at a ballot to elect two Green Party political speakers . |
| 26 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 27 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 28 | Spa towns led by Bath , ports headed by Bristol and Liverpool and including the new venture at Whitehaven , and manufacturing centres like Birmingham , Leeds , Manchester and Sheffield began to grow at a significant rate . |
| 29 | This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage . |
| 30 | We began to run at a great speed through the trees , and Silver was soon thirty metres behind us . |