Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun pl] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King 's army was dispatched and met the rebels at a site now known as ‘ Bloody Oaks ’ , about five miles north-west of the town near Empingham . |
| 2 | For West Indies , two bowlers , Garner and Marshall , shared the honours at the top of the averages with 27 wickets each , Garner 's being slightly the less expensive at just 16 apiece . |
| 3 | The Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor , Anthony Farquhar made the remarks at the funeral of father of six , Michael Edwards , murdered by the UFF early on Friday . |
| 4 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 5 | Wolf 's treatise on Homer laid the foundations at the end of the eighteenth century and a celebrated edition of Lucretius by Karl Lachmann represents the completion of the edifice in 1850 . |
| 6 | Richard Mavro-Michaelis of Lucas Aerospace announced the plans at a gathering of teachers at Farnborough . |
| 7 | I believe I got the Severums at the end of last year . |
| 8 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 9 | The Princess of Wales led the mourners at the service , which her father had asked should not be too sad or mournful . |
| 10 | Each VHW accompanied a mother on her journey through the health centre in order to feel how the mother experienced the activities at the centre . |
| 11 | She was unusually silent , but the group of scientists at the tables could hear her muttering to herself as she punished the books at the end of one of the bays . |
| 12 | Carolyn found the days at the Refuge terrible . |
| 13 | He encountered the Visigoths at the campus Vogladensis , usually identified as Vouillé , but more probably Voulon , near Poitiers . |
| 14 | The Governor-General , the Earl of Clarendon , went to Rustenburg and reviewed the Scouts at a garden party . |
| 15 | On this day : the arrest of the Templars for heresy took place in Paris , on the orders of Philip IV , 1307 ; Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain , 1776 ; President George Washington laid the foundation stone of the White House , Washington 1792 ; British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights , 1812 ; Greenwich was adopted as the universal meridian at the Washington Conference , 1884 ; 41 people were killed during a German air-raid on London , 1915 ; Ankara became the new capital of Turkey , 1923 ; Italy declared war on Germany , 1943 ; the Allies liberated Athens , 1944 ; the first London production of the musical show The Pajama Game was presented , 1955 . |
| 16 | We did a day walk up the Catlin 's river valley ; I dropped the others at the bottom , drove round via forest roads to the top with bike on board , left the car at the top and cycled back . |
| 17 | When we had the circus the lions were put behind the screen , but we were showing an MGM picture and every time the lion at the beginning roared the lions at the back would answer him . |
| 18 | Because , well I told the police at the time that er I 've misplaced it and er my is . |
| 19 | Because , well I told the police at the time that er I 've misplaced it and er |
| 20 | I told the police at the time that he could not have done what they said he had . ’ |
| 21 | He told the troops at a ceremony at Chester Castle : ‘ Wear your medals with pride . ’ |
| 22 | Though Wooderson failed to beat the two healthy Swedes Gundar Hagg and Arne Andersson before 54,000 people , his effort lifted the spirits at a time when , without the tension of war , there was still the dreariness of rationing and shortage . |
| 23 | You took the collar , sold the jewels from it and buried the remains at the foot of a scaffold . ’ |
| 24 | But he 's in — ’ Tina broke off as she suddenly noticed the figures at the Monument . |
| 25 | Independently controlled electric motors turned the rotors at a maximum of 160 rpm . |
| 26 | Some even applauded the players at the end . |
| 27 | Angry with her emotional dependence on her lover , she glued a dart board onto black painted wood so it became a head for her lover 's shirt pasted on below , threw the darts at the target and left him . |
| 28 | W we forgot the notices at the beginning . |
| 29 | Having checked the main stable doors , Seb climbed the steps at the side of the stable and pushed the door to the hay-loft . |
| 30 | She found the tunnel and joined the ducks at the bread . |