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

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1 Winnie Mandela was grim-faced as she and her husband arrived at the Soweto Magistrates Court .
2 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 . ’
3 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 .
4 Lightning flashed at the reception windows , as if a power line had snapped and trailed its cables over the window .
5 Once the show opened at the Winter Gardens , Tiller would disappear on his travels round the world .
6 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 .
7 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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