Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 2 | Not long afterwards , therefore , Havard was invited to call at Magdalen . |
| 3 | Fergus said , ‘ And so I was sent away and Grainne was permitted to remain at Tara . ’ |
| 4 | A letter written six months before trial was sufficient in Mumby v R R Taylor ( Trading as Daisy Bus Service ) ( 1976 ) SC Library Transcript No 459 and the plaintiff was allowed to amend at trial even though doing so meant the defendant 's payment in was inadequate . |
| 5 | In all cases , transcription was found to initiate at position +1 ( Fig. 2 ) , ruling out the possibility that the decrease in CytR regulation is caused by the introduction of a new promoter . |
| 6 | This mixture was allowed to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes . |
| 7 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 8 | Marching in fierce summer heat and unrelentingly harassed by Muslim mounted archers , the army was forced to halt at Hattin , in a waterless region , in the hope of being able to continue next day . |
| 9 | This particular model was built to demonstrate at shows and has been generally lent , hired out , pawed , mauled and knocked about as a result . |
| 10 | But in the light of the latest revelations , Shadow Transport Secretary John Prescott said : ‘ I ca n't believe this plane was allowed to land at Kuwait after the war began . |
| 11 | The country 's commercial debt was said to stand at $10,600 million , plus $1,200 million in interest arrears , to some 500 banks . |
| 12 | Dr Mortimer was called to look at Sir Charles ' body . |
| 13 | Faced by a prosecution concerned primarily with political advancement , confronted by intimidated witnesses who produced no convincing evidence , and his guilt attested by a jury of eleven Campbells and four others , James Stewart was sentenced to hang at Ballachulish ferry on 8 November 1752 . |
| 14 | The pellet was allowed to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes to allow binding to occur and unbound 51-chromium was then removed by washing with 0.9% saline . |
| 15 | When the young men , released from silence , were not talking about ‘ shows ’ in London — which , as their only excursion into permissiveness held out vistas of slightly forbidden enjoyments — they commented with a kind of awe on the ardour of devotion which Eliot was Seen to display at Mass . |