Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three committee members drove from Geneva to be present and in all some 17 Members and Friends of the Swiss Branch gathered at Sussexdown in the late morning of 1 August . |
| 2 | In I Peter 2 , the writer looks at Jesus from the viewpoint of suffering Christians and says : ‘ Yes , I know all that you are enduring … look at Jesus … follow him . ’ |
| 3 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
| 4 | In response to the call , an aproned figure peered at Harry from the kitchen , then bustled towards him , wiping her hands in a towel as she came . |
| 5 | The case at Water Newton is rather less certain , but it has been argued that either one of the two large buildings visible at the centre of the defended area served as an administrative centre for the Fens , or that this function was performed by the remarkable complex identified at Castor to the north-east of the town 's extramural suburbs . |
| 6 | In all , some 368 coaches were converted for use as ambulance trains at Wolverton through the war . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly influenced by the theology taught at Paris by the end of the twelfth century , he maintained that unchaste behaviour by the priest did not invalidate his orders . |
| 8 | There was an engine shed at Wolverton from the earliest days . |
| 9 | S. O. Letterman 's office sends me the announcement made at Cannes of the imminent Franco-American production of the moving story of Claude Cohn-Casson , to be called Masai Dreaming . |
| 10 | Much the same picture emerges at Dragonby throughout the Roman period . |
| 11 | After some coaxing she struggled with a minuscule portion of chicken salad and half a slice of bread , all the while gazing at Melissa with the eyes of a frightened child . |
| 12 | Anselm and the king met at Laigle on the frontier of Normandy on 22 July , and agreed that Anselm 's revenues would be restored . |
| 13 | A SEA Cadet organisation based at Walton on the Naze training ship Rebel was saddened this week on the news of the death of its chairman , Mr Harry Moulton . |
| 14 | The procedure followed at Stowupland with the twelve-furrow work was similar to that already described for the ten-furrow : the head horseman , or first baiter , laid the top and the other horsemen followed him , each ploughing a round at least on a stetch . |
| 15 | If he wins the next two legs , today and tomorrow , his total prize money as overall Grade A champion will only amount to £970 — but he will have the opportunity to compete at Wembley for the rest of the week . |
| 16 | This statue , now in Kunst Historishche Museum in Vienna , was until recently believed to be the Roman statue found at Magdalensberg in the sixteenth century and as such the only complete Roman statue ever found north of the Alps . |
| 17 | Moira had given birth just eight weeks previously and had started to wean the baby early in order to attend the Spring Collection meeting at Remaisnil without the child . |
| 18 | ( The opera founded at Hamburg in the late seventeenth century was exceptional , a social portent . ) |
| 19 | Very occasionally we are able to date the deposit of a hoard by reference to a historical event , such as the hoard found at Athens in the debris of the Persian destruction of the Acropolis in 480 BC . |
| 20 | The Wallowa headman remained at Tepahlewam through the night , and in this time of killing , his wife gave birth to their second daughter . |
| 21 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Óengus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |
| 22 | The Harris community cooperative , ‘ Co Chomunn na Hearadh Ltd ’ , is engaged in a variety of activities , including the operation of a Craft Centre constructed at Leverburgh by the HIDB , coal distribution , and a horticultural programme . |
| 23 | Tracey 's picture byline glared at Loretta from the front page ; had he really intended to look so fierce , she wondered , or was it an attempt to hide his embarrassment ? |
| 24 | Aged only twenty-four he had held down the post of KGB officer attached to the 502nd Guards Armoured Division stationed at Magdeburg in the German Democratic Republic . |
| 25 | In 1881 Oxford produced ‘ the rarest book produced at Oxford since the 15th century ’ . |
| 26 | Previous birthday bashes at Balmoral for the Queen 's sister have been marked by Scottish dancing and champagne . |
| 27 | The rat looked at Moore with the same merciless stare as the Judge in the picture . |
| 28 | New Zealand 's quarrel with France over the Rainbow Warrior incident was formally ended when a French naval ship docked at Auckland for the first time in almost six years . |
| 29 | The list of world premiàres at Houston over the past 20 years puts to shame the record of most other American companies . |
| 30 | Rather he began with the course on pathogenicity and epidemiology taught at Bristol by the late Dr Anna Mayr-Harting ( to whom the book is dedicated ) and invited several colleagues to contribute essays in their fields of interest . |