Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 2 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 3 | The awards for last year 's performances were handed out at the club 's dinner/dance . |
| 4 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 5 | one thing 's for sure the appointment of John Gorman is a popular one on the terraces … he 's given the fans what they crave for … and that 's loyalty … from first thing this morning supporters were rolling up at the County Ground to have their say |
| 6 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 7 | — Nearly 50 awards were handed out at the Erimus Quoit and Rifle Social Club , Middlesbrough for the Winter Handicaps 1991–92 . |
| 8 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 9 | The directives were brought in at the beginning of the year in response to EC directives . |
| 10 | The First Spiritualists were camped out at the edge of a grove of birch trees . |
| 11 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 12 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 13 | Small cabins were dotted about at the side of fields , mostly ruined or used as farm sheds , but in some cases inhabited . |
| 14 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 15 | Falcons were fitted out at the Bordeaux plant to customer specification . |
| 16 | It did n't smash , but its beams were cast up at the ceiling , throwing a gauzy light down on the room below . |
| 17 | Many such instances were carried out at the Chapel over the next few years . |
| 18 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 19 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 20 | He looked straight at her , and she could tell from the way his lower eyelids were drawn up at the inner corners and his nostrils distended that he was trying not to cry . |
| 21 | The SEMI-finals were rounded off at the Woodlanders in Omagh . |
| 22 | When the men were starved out at the beginning of April 1890 and the union had capitulated , the organisation celebrated its triumph by refusing to take back men who wore the union " button " and required those who were re-employed to sign " The Document " , undertaking to work harmoniously with non-unionists and imported labour . |
| 23 | The field at Adswood was sold , and new playing fields were laid out at the front of the School , facing the railway line . |
| 24 | The receivers were called in at the Broadgate developer and the shares suspended at 7¼p , but the FT-SE 100 Index shook off the crisis and climbed to a new peak , up 18 points at 2778.8 . |
| 25 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 26 | Even outside Europe , in Canada , Catholic unions were set up at the beginning of the twentieth century in order to ‘ protect ’ French-Canadian workers from the more suspect ideological influences of American ‘ international ’ ( actually bi-national ) unions which were organising there . |