Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 2 | The joint between the end of the dock and the standing work of the bay end is preferably a direct butt joint between suitable packed or faced surfaces at the leading following and bottom sides of the dock which close simultaneously by a direct butting , as distinguished from a sliding , motion against corresponding surfaces on the standing work . |
| 3 | In other words the candidates most likely to be nominated if they so wish will be those who were nominated and became TDs at the previous general election . |
| 4 | When Tilden was fifteen , he was apprenticed for five years to Alfred Allchin , a London pharmacist , and attended lectures at the Royal College of Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Society . |
| 5 | Trundle through the system and you 'll come across Sherlock Holmes ' familiar profile at Baker Street , and that of Queen Victoria at Victoria station ; old architectural sketches at Paddington , echoing the West Country connection with the engineering Isambard Brunel ; the escalator design at Oxford Circus , in the heart of department store territory ; and crossed pistols at the odd duelling spot of Finsbury Park , to name but a handful . |
| 6 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 7 | He went to the turn in 34 , and was still two shots ahead of the field , but dropped shots at the 10th , 17th and 18th to fall back to 12 under and joint fourth place with Steve Richardson ( 70 ) . |