Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 2 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 3 | His stream of talk was dried up at the source . |
| 4 | The Japanese unzipped the foot of the mainsail so that the boom was loaded only at the inboard and outboard ends . |
| 5 | The long thin mouth was pulled down at the corners like a tragic mask , the eyes were hooded , the shoulders hunched , head bent forward so that the man 's gaze seemed fixed on the surface of the table . |
| 6 | And then a dim light opened out ahead : their boots crunched on pebbles and they emerged from a small cave whose entrance was uncovered only at the lowest of low tides . |
| 7 | His legal training and knowledge of the workings of the Roman curia were put tirelessly at the service of the Crown . |
| 8 | Ash privies were an improvement , as they were built above ground level and cemented at the bottom ; ash was thrown in at the front and the contents withdrawn through a door at the back . |
| 9 | There is even some doubt in some quarters as to whether in fact the unfortunate children were interred at Charfield , for it was said that an Army vehicle was noticed briefly at the scene of the accident , and it has been suggested that some of the remains , possibly those of the children , were removed amid the general confusion . |
| 10 | Considerable work was carried out at the old carding mill . |
| 11 | In the Junior Clubman class a three nation battle was set up at the very start between Hillsborough 's Richard Lyons , Dublin 's John Grandon and Glasgow 's Craig Murray . |
| 12 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 13 | The issue was discussed further at the May 12 meeting of the Joint Nuclear Control Commission ( JNCC ) which had been established in March [ see p. 38819 ] . |
| 14 | This was because of the the smaller number of cases reported ( 99 by June 1984 , with 5 deaths ) and the fact that blame was laid mainly at the feet of absorbency , synthetic fibres and deodorising tampons ( much more common in the States than here ) . |
| 15 | Although the struggle took place outside the formal boundaries of local politics and the council was involved only at the margins , it forced unemployment onto the agenda , much to the advantage of Labour . |
| 16 | The family , he said , were coping well — including Tim 's brother and sister Dominic and Abby who said their goodbyes before the life-support machine was switched off at the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool . |
| 17 | The announcement was made yesterday at the People 's Palace museum on Glasgow Green . |
| 18 | It now leads , via sharp bends , into the town , whose broad market place was laid out at the gate of Kimbolton Castle probably around 1200 . |
| 19 | Security was stepped up at the city 's Fiumicino international airport . |
| 20 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 21 | We at the Institute research into those disasters erm for which we currently have an expertise , as it were , but erm our group was founded actually at the beginning of erm the nineteen seventies and we have specialised quite a lot into looking at famine food erm emergencies and nutritional and medical engineering , sanitation aspects of famines , and lately we 've included in that erm quite of lot of , of work , research work into refugees , the cause of refugees , the prevention of refugees , the alleviation of suffering of refugees , particularly in developing countries . |
| 22 | Mr Doyle 's body was brought ashore at the Pier Head on July 7 this year , Det Sgt Cedric Jones told the hearing . |
| 23 | Further modernisation was carried out at the Imperial Grain Warehouse . |
| 24 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 25 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 26 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 27 | A Paul Gascoigne corner in the 13th minute was flicked on at the near post by John Barnes and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 28 | The phone was picked up at the other end and Charles pressed his two p into the coinbox . |
| 29 | Competition on price was used only at the margin to win benefits for patients , for example in awarding waiting list contracts . |
| 30 | A large shaft station was blasted out at the rock shaft at Deep Level ( see Fig. 14 ) and the work revealed a bonus in the form of a nice bunch of ore on a narrow quartz vein — Dry Gill Vein — which at that point runs approximately parallel to the Bonsor Vein . |