Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Picasso 's work was first seen in Germany in 1909 at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich , and paintings by many of the other painters subsequently known as Cubists were shown at the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich in 1910 . |
| 2 | Yesterday , busloads of lads were disgorged at the city square to make their feelings plain . |
| 3 | A neat stone arch and a flight of steps were built at the entrance and these have survived . |
| 4 | Twenty-nine pairs of shoes were launched at the teacher in charge . |
| 5 | In order to compare the two modes of measurement two sets of readings were taken at the shortest possible interval , 15 seconds , the first set without the filter , the second set with it . |
| 6 | The American audiences were kind of small at first and it was a major promotional coup to have survived it all because a lot of dates were pulled at the last minute — promoters could n't get any interest . |
| 7 | According to Greenpeace , 1,100 tons of munitions were dumped at the site in 1991 and 8,400 tons thus far this year . |
| 8 | A number of men were arrested at the house but later released without charge . |
| 9 | Within five minutes , a little knot of helpers was gathered at the blaze . |
| 10 | Moments later a shower of stones was hurled at the attic-room windows of the servants ' quarters . |
| 11 | A barricade was built in Fahan Street and set on fire and a continuous fusillade of stones was thrown at the police sheltering behind Butcher Gate . |
| 12 | The quay was again extended when a tunnel was made through the island in 1934–9 , further extended in 1957–62 and achieved its present length in the 1970s , when a storage area for containers was made at the end . |
| 13 | This improvement in relations was reinforced at the biannual Franco-German summit in Paris on April 25-26 , when the two leaders also agreed to set up a joint study on the " future architecture of Europe 's security " . |
| 14 | Among the two thirds for whom information on symptoms was supplied at the time of diagnosis of HIV-1 infection , the proportion asymptomatic remained relatively constant : 53% in 1986–7 , 46% in 1988–9 , and 52% in 1990–1 . |
| 15 | This need for criteria was recognised at the Cambridge seminar in 1977 and three papers specified criteria that schemes would need to satisfy . |
| 16 | The idea of running a world round at Brands was announced at the Inter-Centre Conference in Belfast . |