Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 2 | Safeway supermarket group Argyll suffered at the hands of profit takers despite impressive full-year results and a confident prediction it can push profits ahead . |
| 3 | Groups of young men just off the tourist buses laughed at the pictures outside strip clubs , grabbing their own crotches and punching each other 's arms ; then they filed solemnly in . |
| 4 | Wood 's attempt to clear a back pass fell at the feet of Norris , who sidefooted into the net . |
| 5 | The plan for a six-week display in a buffet at Newcastle upon Tyne 's Central Station was derailed after a duty manager looked at the pictures by a French photographer at a preview . |
| 6 | In 1967–68 , the Council 's Training Panel looked at the problems and set up two sub-committees to be concerned with the practical training element of sandwich courses in arts and social studies , and in science and technology . |