Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	I got nothing at the table right .
2	The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant .
3	He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend .
4	Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky .
5	— welcomed everyone at the start of a new academic year , and hopes you all have a record number of enrolments .
6	I heard everything at the Opera and Musikverein .
7	‘ What are we going to sing ? ’ called someone at the back .
8	I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later .
9	‘ They knew nothing at the bookshop , sir ; his sister , Sara , seemed very upset ; she would n't believe that he was n't at home .
10	Before she could add , as she was evidently about to , that she never bought anything at the door , he announced himself hurriedly and asked for her husband .
11	‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’
12	The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up .
13	Volker Rath , the German public prosecutor , tactfully said nothing at the time but later announced that Germany was suspending proceedings against the two Libyans for lack of evidence .
14	Gray said everyone at the club is deeply disappointed over the current situation but they all trying to put it right .
15	‘ I had something at the hospital . ’
16	She said anyone at the party could confirm her story .
17	Alan never said anything at the time , but Willy vanished from Oxford shortly afterwards .
18	Er Webb , Webb missed the first one blasted it over the top and Giggs missed one at the end .

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