Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shrilling overhead , the hurricane clawed at the leaf canopy of the rain forest , tearing great holes in it . |
| 2 | So it was last Tuesday night , when the change allowed at the end of our whacky version of five-card rolling draw brought your correspondent the most beautiful five of spades he had ever seen — face down what 's more — to go with the A-2-3-4 he was showing . |
| 3 | In January 1991 , the Board looked at the responses to this consultation and used the views of respondents to help shape our new Quality Framework and the development programme which will help to put it in place — the Quality Development Programme — QDP . |
| 4 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council were changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 5 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council was changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 6 | E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory . |
| 7 | A number of anecdotes relate the corruption , greed and ignorance of the ulema and the discontent felt at the introduction of the administrative practices of high Islam and especially its fiscal policy . |
| 8 | The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM . |
| 9 | The silt stayed at the bottom , however , and the bank remained porous . |
| 10 | I learned of their decision colleagues last night on television when the Chairman announced at the U D M Conference , who are not involved in this issue at all , that three thousand redundancies of management and clerical staff were going to be made . |
| 11 | The Archdeacon looked at the Inspector kindly , as at a son who has much to learn . |
| 12 | The statue stood at the centre of the Hall of Celestial Destinies in Nantes spaceport , the huge , bronze figures raised high above the executive-class travellers who bustled like ants about its base . |
| 13 | The yacht unveiled at the show was trimmed out in red-stained mahogany , although teak is an alternative . |
| 14 | The all-women party was in full swing when the PC called at the Compass Inn at Cheltenham , Glos , where a strip-o-gram was expected . |
| 15 | The skin puckered at the side of his lips again , this time into a sneer rather than a smile , although with Swod Blanche found it difficult to tell the difference . |
| 16 | These boys , when tested , were found to have an average IQ of 80 , thus showing a significant degree of recovery from the level reached at the end of the first year . |
| 17 | Daphne Rye got him the part , Binkie Beaumont was the producer , the play opened at the Lyric , Hammersmith , on April 8th , 1957 . |
| 18 | The play opened at the Queen 's Theatre at the end of November 1963 to less than rapturous applause . |
| 19 | He returned to London with his wife on 2 September , and the London production of the play opened at the Cambridge Theatre three weeks later . |
| 20 | Movies had won a considerable audience but that audience would be permanently restricted if the industry remained at the edge of society proper , if it remained a side-show or an underground activity . |
| 21 | The carrier arrived at the King Edward Docks and excitement ran high when it was learned to be the Wasp once again . |
| 22 | Other ears heard the transmission , so by the time the force arrived at the target it was covered by a very effective smokescreen . |
| 23 | The liftmaster looked at the others questioningly . |
| 24 | But Mrs Countley , whose son suffered a broken arm , said the ambulance arrived at the scene at 1.30pm . |
| 25 | She died before the ambulance arrived at the hospital . |
| 26 | The president sat at the head of the long mahogany table . |
| 27 | The President sat at the table . |
| 28 | ‘ The interview came at the end of a long day . |
| 29 | There was a delay between the time the ring started to glow and the point at which the glowing reached its peak , because light from the near side of the ring arrived at the earth while light from the far side was still on its way . |
| 30 | The wind tugged at the banner-pole that carried his standard , outside at the turret , and made a dolorous creaking sound that accompanied his steps along the chilly corridor , and whined faintly in his ears even after he had closed the door and shut out the sound of the rain . |