Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 2 | Who lived at the top end of our street |
| 3 | When Coenred went to Rome he went in the company of Offa , son of Sigehere and king of the eastern Saxons , who abdicated at the same time ( HE V , 19 ) , and the harmony which appears to have prevailed between Coenred and Offa is another salutary warning not to describe relations between overlords and their royal dependants in this period as one of constant hostility . |
| 4 | Artai could not have declared any public intent to marry Jehana , Alexei realised , or it would have been the talk of Kinsai. probably there were rumours — nothing was ever entirely a secret at court — and he glanced again at the women who clustered at the other end of the pool . |
| 5 | Mr Taylor , who trained at the Royal Ballet School with Mr Gable at the age of 16 , defended his report when he told the D & S on Wednesday : |
| 6 | Victory was clinched when Lynn Marriner surged upfield and slipped a pass through to Oehlers who scored at the second attempt . |
| 7 | Although space is at a premium in NOTTINGHAM GRADUATE , we like to find a corner for those who studied at the former University College . |
| 8 | The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) . |
| 9 | Catherine and Donald Carswell were a husband and wife literary team who flourished at the same time as another pair , Willa and Edwin Muir . |
| 10 | When the attack finally came Madrid withstood it , thanks in part to the courage of the left-wing militias and the ordinary people of the city , and in part to the stiffening effect of the first International Brigades — foreign volunteers organized by the Comintern , who arrived at the crucial moment . |
| 11 | Held to coincide with May Day ( celebrated elsewhere in the capital by some 5,000 people ) , the 2,000-strong congress met the violent opposition of left-wingers who protested at the various anti-Semitic , nationalist , conservative Catholic , and free-market views of the participants . |
| 12 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 13 | He was buried in the graveyard at St Luke 's Church , Whyteleafe , in Airmen 's Corner , a plot set aside for those who served at the nearby Kenley base and at Croydon . |
| 14 | Loretta had wandered back into the drawing-room , and was chatting to a classics don who taught at the same college as Bridget . |
| 15 | The man , from Nottingham , was one of three , all aged 19 , who collapsed at the all-night rave at the Hummingbird night club in Birmingham . |
| 16 | Two of the daughters , Annie and Rose , were painters who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1887 and 1885 . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ While Britain will enter the 21st century on the back of a 19th century railway system our French partners , who started at the same time , will have built their modern system ready for the opening of the Channel Tunnel , 10 years ahead of Britain . ’ |
| 18 | Dependents of one man who worked at the controversial Sellafield plant in Cumbria and died of lung cancer in 1989 received a ‘ quarter payment ’ of £15,243 . |
| 19 | One notes S. A. Waksman ( 1888–1973 ) , who worked at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the State University of New Jersey . |
| 20 | It is a sentiment shared by many — and especially those who worked at the once-thriving Basingstoke office , now destined for the annals of feed industry history . |
| 21 | But now she raised her eyes and did look , differently , at Alice , the housemate of a Council official who worked at the main office for this area . |
| 22 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |
| 23 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |
| 24 | 2.05:TOP weight Bradbury Star , who fell at the first in this race last year , has an excellent chance to gain compensation . |
| 25 | Clutching her battered handbag , graceless in her servant 's clothes , Sally-Anne Tunstall advanced into the ambassador 's private drawing-room to confront her mother and father , who stared at the strange sight she presented . |
| 26 | A twelve-year-old , who listened at the living-room door to what was going on , wanted to run , but knew he 'd be followed . |
| 27 | Celtic made the breakthrough in the 11th minute when the recalled Charlie Nicholas was first presented with an opening six yards from goal but hesitated , leaving the chance to his striking partner , Frank McAvennie , who appeared at the far post to squeeze the ball in . |
| 28 | This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera . |
| 29 | Prost , who appeared at the same conference , said : ‘ I made my apologies to the world council . |
| 30 | Since taking his seat Dr. Kumar , who lectured at the Imperial College of Science and Technology before carrying out research for British Steel , has dealt with more than 300 letters from constituents , asked more than 50 questions in Parliament and raised a number of local issues including coastal pollution and the delay in building the new hospital at Brotton . |