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

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1 She returned her attention to the track , just as a couple of low branches took a swipe at the cab roof .
2 And er all the branches had a cook at the national agreement how to try and alter it and make it better .
3 Intruders forced a window at the front of a house in Ripon .
4 Intruders forced a window at the front of a house in Ripon .
5 When a handful of persistent pickets parked a caravan at the Hinkley entrance during the long drawn out miners ' strike , they got precious little support .
6 Following Unix System Labs Inc 's SVR.4.2 US bonanza last week ( UX No 390 ) , the European launch was a more subdued affair — just a smattering of USL and Novell Inc officials graced a podium at the Networks ‘ 92 show for a briefing by Univel Inc on its UnixWare derivation .
7 LOYALIST terrorists fired a missile at the top security Crumlin Road jail in Belfast last night .
8 The Dr'gasians pushed a door at the end of the shed back on its runners .
9 The team had to reach both sites by foot from Mahimachi , a village at the foot of the Serrania — the first was a miners ' camp , while the expedition members built a camp at the second site .
10 The other reason was that the relationship remained disguised because the Jewish scriptures underwent a change/distortion at the hands of the Massoretic scribes .
11 One student was killed and about a dozen injured on April 18 in Casablanca when police ended a demonstration at the Hassan II University to draw attention to demands for improved conditions .
12 The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired .
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