Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cement was loaded into barges via chutes which had shutters at the lower end . |
| 2 | He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill . |
| 3 | In days of old , he was thought to have been ridden by one of the Foawr , fabled giants who threw stones at the earth as they passed overhead . |
| 4 | It said little about the state of football at Athletico , but quite a lot about the lefty , New Age lecturers who encourage students at the Tech . |
| 5 | When a girl was caught stealing sugar from the kitchen she wept buckets at the telling off she received . |
| 6 | However , he did admit that there is a get-out clause written in to the contract involving Hapag Lloyd who share facilities at the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal which has been negotiated on cheaper terms than the previous agreement . |
| 7 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 8 | It was explicitly cited as a rationale for the sentence in the 1991 case of Marcus Serjeant , an unemployed teenager who fired blanks at the Queen during the Trooping the Colour ceremony . |
| 9 | The local bands used to play for the morning processions , in the afternoon they played selections at the sports and in the evening they would compete among themselves . |
| 10 | Britain has not yet received any formal demand for the extradition of the demonstrators who threw bricks at the Iranian embassy in London and smashed windows . |
| 11 | Like all ages , the late Middle Ages had its critics who took swipes at the activities of soldiers . |
| 12 | How did the other women feel about women who had abortions at the , at ? |
| 13 | Nearly 4,000 objectors from all over the country — including religious pilgrims who attend retreats at the Franciscan Friary opposite the convent have signed protest petitions . |