Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why so many British ladies ? ’ asked the young German student bemusedly as 60–odd enthusiasts of all ages tumbled off the coach at the Medau College in Coburg . |
| 2 | Her teeth sank into the hand at her mouth and the man yelped , staggering away . |
| 3 | He was standing on the bottom stair when he heard footsteps coming up the back stairs from the kitchen and then Jane 's large dark eyes peered through the banisters at him . |
| 4 | Voices rose from the waste-ground at the back of the house — they were discussing how to chain up the dog . |
| 5 | Official estimates suggested that 57 de facto parties existed in the country at the end of 1990 . |
| 6 | Any hopes they had of a successful Cup run to take the heat off their internal worries disappeared in the mud at Underhill . |
| 7 | From this more harmonious base the counsellor can attempt to move the family on to consider when family relationships began to falter , what the circumstances were , and how all parties felt about the issues at that time . |
| 8 | Her hazel eyes glinted across the table at him . |
| 9 | ETA had recently directed threats against the national railway company Renfe , and small bombs exploded on the line at Puerto de Pajares , north of Leon , on Aug. 14 and 20 , and on the Madrid-Oviedo line near Avila on Aug. 17 and 19 . |
| 10 | Parents clustered around the gates at the beginning and end of the school day . |
| 11 | Certain semi-conductors came from the factories at Corbeil-Essonnes in France , from Sindelfingen in Germany , or were bought from external suppliers . |
| 12 | Surprised murmurs ran through the assembly at that , and then there was silence . |
| 13 | COLOMBO — Sri Lankan troops went on the offensive at first light yesterday after left-wing rebels defied a six-day government ceasefire and burnt dozens of vehicles and buildings , killing 61 people , Reuter reports . |
| 14 | Last week , a mob of 100 fishermen went on the rampage at Peterhead and destroyed the £200,000 cargo of frozen cod due to be landed by the Russian trawler , Romb . |
| 15 | Because of the nature of the problems dealt with by departments of genito-urinary medicine , the questions asked by the doctor at the interview tend to be of an intimate nature . |
| 16 | And then there was nothing but sky , and Jekub speeding up as the wheels bounced over the field at the top of the hill . |
| 17 | The cattle arrived at the landing-stage at Woodside , spent 10–14 days in pens ( ‘ lairages ’ ) recovering from the crossing , and were then slaughtered . |
| 18 | A purity seal of eye-aching purple was offset by a bilious personal heraldic badge , of a nail transfixing a splayed hand , which almost melted visually into his breastplate as though the ghost of one of his hearts showed through the metal at that spot , the fingers being the pulmonary tubes and the palm the iron-pierced heart itself . |
| 19 | Fishermen from Devon and Cornish ports arrived throughout the night at Plymouth and stopped the 8,500 ton French-owned ferry Quiberon on an overnight crossing from Roscoff from docking . |
| 20 | Tony Yates , manager of Club Lucys , said he first heard he would have to close early when officers called at the club at 11.20pm on Saturday . |
| 21 | The great trans-shipment complex for the riches mined from the valleys at Morwellham , near Tavistock in Devon , is now a far cry from its original form , while Coalbrookdale , despite gallant work on it , is quite unlike it was in its heyday . |
| 22 | The burglars lived in the bluegums at the bottom of the estate . |
| 23 | The crooks drove into the factory at Slough , Berks , and towed away a trailer containing £36,000-worth of the bars . |
| 24 | The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary . |
| 25 | Coun John Elders is calling for tougher action after drunken teenage vandals rampaged along the promenade at Seaton Carew , near Hartlepool , wrecking seafront chalets . |
| 26 | If this were a story by a ‘ serious ’ writer the critics would pursue the symbolism of hidden latches and dark tunnels as diligently as the children pursue the gang of international smugglers discovered in the cave at the end of the tunnel . |
| 27 | A reform of nurse education as outlined in Project 2000 would overcome many of the frustrations felt within the profession at the present time ( 1 ) . |
| 28 | Fortunately , some of Gamal 's friends burst into the box at this point . |
| 29 | A knot of men came from the shore at a staggering run , carrying another who was crying . |
| 30 | Within the first year of the 1987 Parliament a quarter of Conservative back-benchers rebelled against the government at least once . |