Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Some days before the rescue centre collected the dogs , a lady enquired at the Oxford police station about two missing Rough Collies .
2 The accident happened at the ICI fibres plant in Brockworth near Gloucester .
3 Winnie Mandela was grim-faced as she and her husband arrived at the Soweto Magistrates Court .
4 The Coroner looked at the police officers who sat just in front of the Foreign Office representatives .
5 But the people on the square shouted at the security forces ‘ We are the people ’ , ‘ We are not terrorists ’ , ‘ You eat the people 's bread . ’
6 In 1913 , 150,000 tons of unrefined sugar arrived at the Nord stations , 85 per cent of it at La Chapelle-Charbons .
7 It is northing more than another attack aimed at the trade unions under the government 's Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill , and takes absolutely no account of the additional hardship it will impose on our members .
8 Lightning flashed at the reception windows , as if a power line had snapped and trailed its cables over the window .
9 Once the show opened at the Winter Gardens , Tiller would disappear on his travels round the world .
10 The gentlemen of this hereditary ( non-peerage ) rank , of the creations of England , Ireland , Great Britain and the United Kingdom , are permitted a canton ( or an escutcheon ) showing the ‘ bloody hand of Ulster ’ — argent a sinister hand couped at the wrist gules .
11 Its chemical composition was determined at the Rockefeller Institute in New York and found to be identical with the material synthesized at the Winthrop laboratories 3 years earlier .
12 Explosions and convulsions of heat clawed at the energy shields — an unending succession of ravenous monsters springing into existence just outside , only to die because they could not feed yet , yet being born again instantly .
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