Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 2 | Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th . |
| 3 | The ‘ superego ’ , however , is a censoring , evaluating , mechanism , one instilled into children at an early age . |
| 4 | The Palestinians were kept bound and blindfolded in buses at the Lebanese border for some 20 hours while Israeli civil rights lawyers tried to win a court order to halt the deportations . |
| 5 | The old King was now hurrying south and with him would come those grizzled warlords who followed like mastiffs at the royal heels . |
| 6 | But we actually talked about things at an appropriate level . |
| 7 | Labour 's John Aberdeen talked to colleagues at the Scottish Labour Party Conference ; the Conservative candidate , Hampshire barrister Dr Paul McCormick , made an immediate and thorough study of the circumstances surrounding the removal of the children , and Frances McKie for the Scottish National Party was quick to express her horror of the Social Work Department 's actions . |
| 8 | I also went to classes at the local clinic but they were a low-key sort of affair . |
| 9 | No wonder Helmut was seen ‘ loitering around after working hours ’ ; no wonder he burst into tears at the slightest provocation ; and no wonder he was in debt . |
| 10 | One proposal , put forward and agreed by participants at the national workshop , was the establishment of a ‘ best practice ’ programme to which agencies could apply for funds to redesign work . |