Example sentences of "at [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 2 | But the overall winner of Guide the Brush was Tom Metson of Loughborough , Leics , who said ‘ An original painting would mean a boy remembering the B-17s at Ridgewell and now understanding the sacrifices being made for us all in 1942–1945 ’ . |
| 3 | She looked at Tumbleweed and then ran off . |
| 4 | Her eyes shifted , glancing at Doyle and then flickering back . |
| 5 | Gerald Annesley was educated at Wellington and then went out to Kenya by steerage . |
| 6 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 7 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 8 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 9 | In the meantime , the King gathered an army around himself at Shrewsbury and then headed for Oxford . |
| 10 | He glared at Newman and then left the room with Carver . |
| 11 | Liverpool went out in disgrace , Mike Marsh becoming their third player to be sent off in four Cup-Winners ' Cup ties this season as Spartak Moscow won a cold war at Anfield that also produced five bookings . |
| 12 | Fix the cells with 3.7% formaldehyde in PBS for 30–45 min at 20-C , wash four times in PBS , extract with 0.25% Triton X-100 in PBS for 10 min at 20-C and finally wash twice in PBS . |
| 13 | She glanced at David and wryly saw that he seemed to be listening to this conversation with great interest . |
| 14 | The beast-face leered at Rex and then began to laugh . |
| 15 | Paul Kitson gave the Rams a dream start with his 13th goal of the season after just three minutes at Reggiana and further strikes from Mark Pembridge and Marco Gabbiadini completed a comfortable 3-0 win . |
| 16 | Only aerial defence depicted in the film was the efforts of two Air Corps pilots , George Welch and Kenneth Taylor , in their P–40s which had been parked at the auxiliary field at Haleiwa and not received any attention from the Japanese . |
| 17 | You know Irene and I had a holiday along there , we stayed at Frinton and then moved to Clacton . |
| 18 | Our Workshop Day at Marlow as well attended too ; Class embers came from far and wide — a dedicated crew . |
| 19 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 20 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 21 | He was questioned about the decision not to build a lift at Watford but instead to renew the narrow locks . |
| 22 | He stopped speaking and gazed hard at Corbett and then continued quietly , almost as if he was talking to himself . |
| 23 | Gill Wootton , from Darlington , had the imaginative notion that it was hereditary , a link with the Duke of Cumberland son of George II who triumphed at Culloden and mercilessly annihilated surviving Jacobites . |
| 24 | But , as so often , no one was prepared to halt the machine once set in motion and on Friday 26 January 1744 Admiral Jacques de Roquefeuil sailed out of Brest with a fleet of 22 ships , with instructions to cover the embarkation of the army at Dunkirk and then to lure the English fleet away towards the Isle of Wight . |
| 25 | Certain of his actions — including misleading the board over a transaction with Peter de Savary concerning a property development at Canvey and then concluding it without board approval — amounted to breaches of his fiduciary duty to Blue Arrow , the report says . |
| 26 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 27 | About ten members toured the reed bed scheme at Billingham and later had discussions about local environmental improvement programmes . |
| 28 | Felipe de Santis shot a dark , ironic glance at Maggie that quite caught her off guard . |
| 29 | Robinson laughed , looked at Nicholson and then fell silent again . |
| 30 | On waking I had a look at Nigel and then telephoned Alan , to find out when he would be ready to drive him to the crematorium mortuary . |