Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anticipating land reform , poor peasants and agricultural labourers occupied large estates in a number of southern provinces ; several villagers , as in Yeste ( Albacete ) , perished in the attempt at the hands of the Civil Guard . |
| 2 | In the bathroom he peered in the mirror at the creases on his forehead ; surely they were deeper than they had been yesterday . |
| 3 | This is an old trestle-table Ernest found in the workroom at the back , when he opened up the house again . |
| 4 | For her it was sufficient that the Quantock sheep glittered with dew in the morning sunshine , that the full moon rose ‘ in uncommon majesty ’ over the sea , and that the silk-weaver 's dog howled in the dark at the sound of the village stream . |
| 5 | Goodman scored in the win at the Baseball Ground last season that kicked off Malcolm Crosby 's managerial reign — now his goals are needed to help keep Crosby in a job . |
| 6 | He was about 6ft 4in and I think he played in the middle at the back . |
| 7 | It happened in the village at the bottom of Donovan 's Lane . |
| 8 | What happened in the relay at the European Championships bears an important relationship to some of the friction , argument and unpleasantness that occurred , mostly between Frank Dick and me , over the following two years , so it is important to record an unbiased , respected outsider 's view of what actually took place . |
| 9 | Miss Cress rested in the sunshine at the top of the steps for a moment or two , saddened . |
| 10 | Official estimates suggested that 57 de facto parties existed in the country at the end of 1990 . |
| 11 | We saw that he prayed in the verse at the end of last Sunday 's passage ; he prays in verse 33 as well . |
| 12 | If this were a story by a ‘ serious ’ writer the critics would pursue the symbolism of hidden latches and dark tunnels as diligently as the children pursue the gang of international smugglers discovered in the cave at the end of the tunnel . |
| 13 | But Tyrone took the honours earlier this season when they met in the league at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 14 | The wind and the mist whispered in the grass at the foot of the pole from which I hung . |
| 15 | She gravely tried the things she liked , and sat solemnly in a bumping car with one of a family who lived in the road at the back of their house . |
| 16 | ‘ We very much need to speak to them , and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said . |
| 17 | ‘ We very much need to speak to them and to anyone else who lived in the area at the time or thinks they know anything , ’ Mr McEwan said . |
| 18 | The earliest recorded work of these artists is in the shrine of These us , built or rebuilt by Cimon after he brought back the hero 's bones from Skyros in 473 ; and there is a detailed description by Pausanias of Polygnotos 's two murals in a lesche ( clubhouse ) dedicated at Delphi by the people of Knidos , perhaps after the liberation of the Asia Minor Greeks from Persia in Cimon 's campaigns , which culminated in the victory at the Eurymedon in 468 . |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone knew in the business at the time , ’ she continued remorselessly , ‘ but you had such a problem with your ego you could n't or would n't accept it ! |
| 20 | The vicar would never have agreed to any kind of mock funeral , but he finally yielded to Midge 's plea that some intercession should be made for the souls of the unknown man and woman whose charred corpses lay in the refrigerator at the mortuary . |
| 21 | He no longer confides in he , as he did in the letter at the beginning , but distances himself from her . |
| 22 | ‘ Marie Savigny or Deveril was murdered in the forest of Godstowe and you appeared in the priory at the same time . |
| 23 | From inside the hut behind him came the sudden sound of gongs and drums being beaten and immediately a bare-breasted woman appeared in the doorway at the top of the stepped log , holding aloft a tall earthenware jar . |
| 24 | He braked in the yard at the rear of the Lodge , and through the windscreen I saw a plume of smoke rising almost vertically beyond a pantiled outbuilding which I assumed must be Laura 's studio . |
| 25 | He remained in the army at the end of the Civil War , and in 1924 was appointed to command the regimental school of the 26th Rifle Regiment . |
| 26 | Leland claimed his company was worth over $16 million : 3407 Lincolns had been built and 241 remained in the plant at the time of the sale . |
| 27 | She stood in the doorway at the end of the corridor , looking into a small polygonal room with a sloping ceiling . |
| 28 | Force 6 is not a gale , it has to be force 8 or more for that , but it is still rough enough , with every wave breaking over the bows and sometimes over the whole boat , drenching us as we sat in the cockpit at the back . |