Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun pl] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of' Playne and Smith , they concentrated their efforts at a single site , Dunkirk , modernising it and installing a steam engine and power-looms . |
| 2 | The workers made their comments at the tenth anniversary conference of the Association of Black Social Workers and Allied Professions held last week in London . |
| 3 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 4 | Sure enough , they dropped their sticks at the same moment and ran across to the downriver side of the bridge to watch for the winner . |
| 5 | Perhaps this was what those few loud-mouthed rabbit-eyed creatures who dropped their bombs at the first flak and then came back and talked about the target area had felt like . |
| 6 | My father reported that the Shoan leaders estimated their troops at a hundred and twelve thousand , but he warned the Foreign Office that they tended to count the number at a chief 's disposal rather than how many he could effectively assemble . |
| 7 | The group chosen received their prizes at the 1987/8 Awards Ceremony on 2 November 1988 in the Mitchell Theatre , Glasgow , and are pictured above . |
| 8 | Details of Mr Gill 's golden retirement deal amazed his ex-colleagues at the white-collar Manufacturing , Science and Finance union . |
| 9 | The Russians are believed to have detected this deployment and fired their shells at a high angle over the heads of the Slavs to hit the Austrians ahead . |
| 10 | In 1851 Harris showed his facsimiles at the Great Exhibition ; his own brief account of his technique and early work appears in the 1852 Reports by the Juries . |
| 11 | In addition to developing his own tricks and illusions , Maskelyne was important as an impresario , booking guest performers to appear in his show , and many successful magicians began their careers at the Egyptian Hall : one who never performed there was Houdini , who wrote asking for an engagement in 1898 , before he became famous , and was refused . |
| 12 | The people on the pavements were always sprucely dressed , they pushed their prams or followed their dogs at a leisurely , unhurried pace ; the cars purred quietly on the smooth roads ; there was always somebody playing at the Tennis Club . |
| 13 | Churchill inspired but also unnerved his listeners at the same time by painting the prospects of the armed struggle in darker and more dramatic tones than might seem necessary or desirable . |
| 14 | They knew he spent his weekends at the flying club , but had n't got around to totting up how many hours of blind flying instruction in a twin-engined Cessna he was buying , nor how much each such hour cost . |
| 15 | A group of derelicts seated in the trash-strewn gutter amiably waved their bottles at the passing parade . |
| 16 | There , in the spring , they lay their eggs at a great depth and the minute larvae float up to the more surface waters with the onset of summer . |
| 17 | When fast scoring is discussed , there is one name which comes up more often than any other , and which should , in fairness , have been the first to have been entered on this teamsheet. it has been estimated that Gilbert Jessop — ‘ The Croucher ’ — made his runs at an average rate of 80 per hour , a phenomenal statistic . |
| 18 | They outlined their plans at an initial workshop on ‘ Television and Worship ’ which was held in Lage Vuursche , Netherlands , 27 April-2 May . |
| 19 | His majestic iron play gave him birdies at the short second and sixth and in between his putter also worked admirably to acquire birdies at the fourth and long fifth . |
| 20 | He resumed his studies at the Royal College but was unable to concentrate . |
| 21 | And when I nodded , he flicked his fingers at a passing waiter . |
| 22 | Dr Clarke aimed his remarks at the key issues of the election campaign : health , education and the economy . |
| 23 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 24 | They stabled their horses at the Holy Lamb of God and threaded their way across the noisy market place . |
| 25 | The authors published their reports at the 2nd Benoxaprofen Symposium in June , by which time the firm had the full texts of the assays . |
| 26 | It was the sort of wit , understated and warm , which characterised his years at the International Secretariat , first as head of the Asia Region and then throughout his term as secretary general . |