Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 FOOTBALL hero Paul Gascoigne 's dirty underwear has been snapped up at auction .
2 A sports club has been set up at Cleadon Park Community Centre in South Shields for girls aged 10 to 16 .
3 A Parallel Processor Assessment Group has been set up at NPL as part of a wider interest within the System Architectures Committee in the collection and dissemination of reliable information on performance assessment of novel computer architectures .
4 A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years .
5 A mortgage adviser 's ‘ office ’ — shaped like a house — has been set up at Bradford Branch .
6 An incident room has been set up at Milton keynes and police are working on information that Mr Letts managed to tell them before he died .
7 To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if there are currently any contracts with the Atomic Energy Authority for research into the fabrication of weapons components using plutonium ; and whether any such work has been carried out at Harwell .
8 She says she hated being cooped up at home , concocting his favourite tuna fish salad .
9 No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights .
10 One in which , on a single day , he could have been rounded up at bayonet-point or celebrated a cigarette .
11 It is , however , a much better thing for the Lions that England 's formerly mighty but now creaking pack should have been found out at Lansdowne Road rather than in the Land of the Long White Cloud .
12 A woman who is happy in her job and hates being cooped up at home all day win bring back positive qualities to the household , but on the other hand the strains and stresses of work can also leave their mark on family life .
13 He wore a coat and a scarf because the electricity had been cut off at lunchtime .
14 And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour .
15 ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … .
16 They had been loaded on at Perm and were being shipped for slaughter and wool to Irkutsk , the great Cossack camp in eastern Siberia .
17 Courses had been marked out at Gandale Bivouac Camp , which is part of Catterick Garrison 's training area .
18 A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry .
19 Schmidt-Richberg reported that , as from the previous day , Army Group E's HQ had been set up at Feistritz , in 5 Corps area on the north side of the Alps , and that a huge force under his command , comprising some 300,000 German and 200,000 Groat troops , most of them armed , was approaching the frontier with Austria from the south .
20 Scaffolding worth £200 which had been put up at Firthmoor Infants School in Estoril Road South , Darlington , has been stolen .
21 K. I 've been held up at Paddington , John .
22 The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University .
23 A group of them have been rounded up at Gagosian from 14 January to 20 February .
24 A petrol station assistant and her friend have been held up at knifepoint .
25 To date , in certain areas of company law , minimum standards have been laid down at Community level , and apply to companies throughout the EC , irrespective of where they are incorporated or have their central administration .
26 In fact , much so-called juvenile water is probably either rainwater that has circulated to great depths , or water that was trapped in rocks that have been carried down at subduction zones ( see Inside Science , No. 6 , 23 February 1988 ) .
27 Finally , during my time in post I have lectured to every one of the Senior Engineering Management courses that have been carried out at RAF Cranwell .
28 However , tests have been carried out at Manchester University , England , to find out whether we also possess a natural magnetic sense .
29 Over the past 12 years , a series of large scale surveys of the British mechanical engineering industry have been carried out at CURDS .
30 Others have been gunned down at home in front of their children .
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