Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 And I booked at the Claremont which is , twenty eight pounds .
2 I studied at the Scuole Medie in the Istituto Melloni , which would enable me , after four years , to choose either a classical or a scientific education by taking the appropriate examination .
3 When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection .
4 All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage .
5 I arrived at the Cheshire Cheese early deliberately — to spy out the land … ’
6 But when I arrived at The St Chad 's Deanery Day for Stockport and discovered there was a group of 20 people aged from ten up to 19 , I thought that things could n't be so bad after all .
7 So it was that just after 8.15 on the morning of Monday , May 6th , 1929 I arrived at the Times-Herald editorial offices and found the place locked up tight .
8 When I arrived at the Demob Centre , I sat around in a bare hall for what seemed like a couple of hours , with two or three hundred other Waafs , and we stared at each other without interest .
9 I taught at the London School of Economics , I was head of the department at the University of Essex in which you were an undergraduate , and was in fact your personal tutor .
10 I worked at the London Palace Hotel as a chambermaid for three years .
11 Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer .
12 I started at the Jules Thorn unit on 13 July .
13 I started at the Grosvenor and visited about thirty-five before I stopped . ’
14 There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round .
15 I railed at the NSS typesetters and then happened to look at my own copy and saw that the mistake was entirely mine .
16 Our involvements st with this project started way back in nineteen eighty nine , went into a series of meetings which most recent I attended at the Greater York authorities , we learnt the full scale and extent of the housing land problems in the Greater York area , we of course have no part in the decisions which have been made by the Greater York authorities , nor in the plans they subsequently made for the York greenbelt , but clearly we remain closely interested in the outcome .
17 One of the sellers was Nairn ladies ' guild , who had been given the plate to sell for the guild 's funds , and this was the one I bought at the Bradford Exchange price .
18 But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown !
19 I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce .
20 That first visit when I stayed at the Al Ain Hilton seemed in the dim past .
21 I stayed at the Columba Hotel , just near the quay .
22 I stayed at the Kiawah Island Inn , which is on the edge of a 10-mile undisturbed stretch of Atlantic beach 21 miles from the lovely old southern city of Charleston .
23 I stayed at the Claremont when I was down doing and I ca n't remember where it is on the street .
24 On my visit to New York in August of 1939 I stayed at the St Regis Hotel ( having learned it was pro-British and that the Duke of Edinburgh made it his home on Manhattan visits ) .
25 Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue .
26 No-one was hurt in the incident , which occurred at the Mihama plant near Fukui , some 220 miles west of Tokyo .
27 LETTER-BOMBERS who sent a package which exploded at the Cambridgeshire headquarters of Anglian Water yesterday have been roundly condemned by Scottish National Party leaders .
28 Designed to complement ‘ Gravity and Grace : the changing condition of sculpture 1965–1975 ’ which opened at the Hayward Gallery last month ( The Art Newspaper , p.24 , Jan 1993 , p. 5 ) , Lisson has mounted a survey of the art of the first generation of minimal and conceptual artists .
29 Timed to coincide with a survey of her oil paintings which opened at the Hayward Gallery last month , Karsten Schubert is showing twelve works on paper by Bridget Riley ( 15 October-14 November ) with an accompanying catalogue essay by Richard Francis .
30 The spirit of innovation in silver design throughout Europe in the latter part of the nineteenth and early years of twentieth century is celebrated in a stylish exhibition entitled ‘ Silver of a new Era : International Highlights of Precious Metalware from 1880–1940 ’ which opened at the Museum Boymans van Beuningen , Rotterdam and is now at the Museum voor Sierkunst , Ghent ( until 27 July ) .
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