Example sentences of "[vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They disembarked at Queen 's Pier , next to the town hall and the British garrison headquarters , for the 25-minute welcome ceremony . |
| 2 | Shouting and laughing , the family disembarked at a broken-down council estate covered in rubbish . |
| 3 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 4 | On 27th November 1877 , Joseph 's people disembarked at Fort Leavenworth . |
| 5 | When they disembarked at Algeciras , the Spanish customs officers searched the car and made them open their luggage . |
| 6 | On 28 April the Lisbon forces disembarked at Ponta de São Laurenço under cover of firing from the ships . |
| 7 | On Thursday 31 April 700 Lisbon soldiers disembarked at Caniçal and , aided by fog , took the town of Machico and forced the rebels into the hills to the west . |
| 8 | Besides myself there were three other passengers , but they all disembarked at Rarotonga , and after that , for the three days at sea before we reached Koraloona , Robins and I were more or less on our own . |
| 9 | At Westminster they disembarked at King 's Steps , Corbett pulling the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition by any of his colleagues in the Chancery or the Exchequer for he did not want to waste valuable time in idle chatter . |
| 10 | Two days later , after a peaceful voyage , we disembarked at Calais — a dreadful place , England 's last foothold in France , nothing more than a glorified fortress packed with men-at-arms and archers , who staggered the streets in their boiled leather jerkins , drinking in the many ale houses and generally looking for trouble . |
| 11 | On Sept. 19 , 500 Italian troops disembarked at Durres and food relief and trucks were unloaded . |
| 12 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 13 | I disembarked at Dover , cursing Benjamin , the King , the Lord Cardinal , and heartily wishing I was back in Ipswich , free from the baleful influence of the Great Ones of the soil . |
| 14 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 15 | Passengers disembarked at Teesside Airport on the outskirts of Darlington to join TV 's ‘ Green Goddess ’ Diana Moran for a workout on the turf . |
| 16 | The passengers disembarked at Teesside Airport on the outskirts of Darlington to join TV 's Green Goddess Diana Moran for a workout . |
| 17 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 18 | The Grauniad reckoned Vinny seemed totally confounded by the affection radiated at him by Elland Road and this had an effect on the game ! |
| 19 | It beat at the stonework and screamed about projections . |
| 20 | LIVERPOOL , meanwhile , is throbbing to the indie beat at Temptation . |
| 21 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 22 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 23 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
| 24 | She beat at her face , her bosom , her stomach , her hips , with hands which looked as if they were dripping with damson jam . |
| 25 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 26 | The rain beat at their eyes and the lurch of the uneven ground roller-coasted beneath them , jostling them in their saddles despite the grip of their tired knees . |
| 27 | A greater fool than you could ever know , Shae thought dully , pain throbbing like a drum beat at her temples . |
| 28 | He carried Wynne-Jones on his back ; the old man beat at the thorns with his stick , one arm held tightly around his son 's neck . |
| 29 | She beat at her brother 's head , causing him to screech with pain . |
| 30 | She beat at him with her fists , striking him in the face , making him jerk back his head . |