Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 2 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 3 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you really wonder , ’ he asked me at an embassy function in west Beirut , ‘ why we wo n't claim compensation ? |
| 5 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 6 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 7 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ? |
| 9 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 10 | HOLDER John Parrott yesterday pronounced himself at a career peak after reaching the semi-finals of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston . |
| 11 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 12 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 13 | She found herself at a loss for words . |
| 14 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ No , his analyst told me at a party in New York . ’ |
| 16 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 17 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 18 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 19 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 20 | Tero followed them at a distance , watching her new friend with sorrowful anxious eyes . |
| 21 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 22 | Luckily Billy saw Harriet leave , carrying the second of the cubs , and followed her at a distance . |
| 23 | For a long time , I adored him at a distance and could n't believe my luck when he started showing an interest in me . ’ |
| 24 | When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance . |
| 25 | At two o'clock she seated herself at a window-table in a restaurant overlooking the Nile , near where the houseboat was moored . |
| 26 | A WOMAN flung herself at a mugger and bit off his right ear when he snatched her bag in Milan . |
| 27 | On the Tuesday night , however , my Private Secretary , Steve Godber , rang me at a dinner to tell me that at the eleventh hour Nigel Lawson had put round a minute which sought to reopen the whole issue of the replacement for SERPS . |
| 28 | The ruling DEMOS coalition dissolved itself at a meeting on Dec. 30 , and called for early elections in April or May 1992 . |
| 29 | Julia turned away from the sea , stepped from sand onto concrete and settled herself at a terrace table outside a café . |
| 30 | The man in charge of the investigation , Supt Stan Fletcher , said : ‘ Local police in Newcastle arrested him at a hotel last night . |