Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Goodbye ’ will also feature on the band 's second album , as yet untitled , expected to hit the shops at the end of October . |
| 2 | Sami al-Khatib , vowed to hang the bombers at the scene of the crime . |
| 3 | Omar said the group of people , mostly men , rushed towards the stones and began to hurl the rocks at the woman . |
| 4 | Bloomberg decided to raise the stakes at the peak of the latest reporting season . |
| 5 | He started to learn the bagpipes at the age of nine and won several junior prizes . |
| 6 | Carter had told the police at the time they had a row over money and his wife had walked out , never to return . |
| 7 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 8 | The Elector of Hanover was known to hold little sympathy for the Tories , whom he felt had betrayed the Allies at the Peace of Utrecht , and few doubted that when George I became King the Tories would lose the political ascendancy they had enjoyed since 1710 . |
| 9 | There had been plans to introduce a separate currency , in the form of Soviet roubles stamped with a letter " U " ( Ukraine ) for purchasing basic goods , but it was claimed that the Soviet authorities had thwarted the plans at the last minute , forcing the reintroduction of coupons instead . |
| 10 | Mrs Taylor from the Welcome Café , whose husband had summoned the police at the discovery of Oliver 's body , said that between 4.15 and 4.30 on 22 June a man resembling the description given by others had staggered into her café . |
| 11 | He had ordered the men at the north-facing ramparts and at the churchyard wall to fight their way back through the Residency from room to room towards the hall , from where a dash could be made for the head of the connecting trench ; once safely inside the trench the north-facing cannons of the banqueting hall , firing over their heads , could give them covering fire to complete their withdrawal . |