Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 2 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 3 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 4 | Ultimately the hind legs became strengthened at the expense of the front ones . |
| 5 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 6 | Bernice turned to rage at the woman . |
| 7 | Well I think it 's very important Robert because , I mean as the charter for the arts indicated look at the money that local authorities are spending upstairs to us and really you know we , we are |
| 8 | A period of teacher training followed , after which Blamey returned to teach at the Regent Street Polytechnic where he remained , apart from a brief period during the war , until it combined with the Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 9 | When they had gone , Maisie started to pick at the grass with her fingers . |
| 10 | West Brom were then safe and were not too bothered about letting Stoke beat them to send Leeds down after the trouble that Leeds fans had caused at the Hawthorns . |
| 11 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |
| 12 | She spoke to reporters from a ‘ secret location ’ at the weekend , describing how Mrs Mandela had arrived at the house early in the morning . |
| 13 | The case concerned a rusty old car which had belonged to one M. The structure of the car had rusted at the sides of the engine compartment and M had attempted to repair this with plastic body filler . |
| 14 | The car had stopped at the quarry in the pitch darkness , and , Mr O'Donnell said , he had been dragged out and beaten again by the men , including McPherson . |
| 15 | The Aborigines had suffered at the hands of the sealers — many of the women were kidnapped and put to work plucking birds for the feather trade — but they retained their custom of a spontaneous welcome for anyone who put into port on the island . |
| 16 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 17 | Her business mind had jumped at the chance of a spot of international acclaim . |
| 18 | According to Le Monde of April 19 some Dev Sol fighters had trained at the PKK camp in the Bekaa [ see also p. 38833 ] . |
| 19 | For the moment it is enough to observe that the Historie/ Geschichte dichotomy could very easily end up looking rather like Lessing 's between the accidental truths of history and the necessary truths of reason , or Fichte 's between the historical and the metaphysical , and thus lead to a position open to the same charge of Gnosticism that Baur had laid at the door of Hegel and Schleiermacher . |
| 20 | Thirty three of the 36 patients in the study had died at the end of the study period , 21 ( 87% ) in the chemotherapy group , and all 12 in the supportive care group . |
| 21 | The crossflow of cars had stopped at the sound of the approaching siren and now drivers and passengers and a small number of pedestrians were all looking around , uncertain of the direction . |
| 22 | At the end of the first week Allaf was particularly critical of the Israeli delegation 's tactics , saying that the Israeli delegation had arrived at the talks with a " premeditated determination not to allow any progress " . |
| 23 | The crisis of modernism had arisen at the beginning of the century as a consequence of the profound , perhaps too rapid , infiltration of Catholic institutions and consciousness by the scholarly methods and intellectual attitudes and presuppositions which had developed earlier in predominantly Protestant and liberal milieus . |
| 24 | The tweed-coated figure continued to stare at the page of the book to the left of his plate , ignoring his companion . |
| 25 | As Thorfinn had done at the start of his reign , in Fife . |
| 26 | Courtney had worked at the Whipps Cross and Charing Cross hospitals in England , at Dublin 's University College hospital , in Saudi Arabia and at the Royal Free hospital and medical school , where he was researching a project on caesarian sections . |
| 27 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 28 | After Martin 's death his son Jean continued to reside at the rue de Harlay , and presumably became the master maker of the workshop . |
| 29 | We do not know precisely what stage the likelihood of significant harm had reached at the time when Thorpe J. gave his judgment on 12 May 1992 , but , he spoke of the need to strike |
| 30 | Vesa had jumped at the idea . |