Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman and Mr Bickersteth reported on the fire at the Carriage Works which destroyed the body shop with 25 new and 16 old carriages sent there for repairs , the estimated loss being about £21,420 . |
| 2 | Kerr reported on the visit at the July meeting of the Council , drawing attention to ‘ the adverse criticisms contained in this report ’ , emphasizing that it had been a strong visiting party , and that it had reached its conclusions unanimously . |
| 3 | He walked on the carpet at the outside of the treads and the noise dropped away to almost nothing . |
| 4 | I squatted on the stool at the foot of the bed while Mum searched the drawers , from one of which she pulled a bottle of gin . |
| 5 | As I squatted on the grass at the entrance to the trench , the stillness of the evening was shattered by the most awesome sound . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , mounting intercommunal tensions in Foca centred on the dismissal at the beginning of the month of some 100 Serb employees from a local bus company . |
| 7 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 8 | Sir Monty himself appeared on the panel at the end of the programme , expressing his opinion that the status of engineers was an intrinsic part of the problem . |
| 9 | This may be seen not only from a detailed breakdown of the sacrificial prescriptions in terms of the sex of the victim chosen for particular occasions , but more especially from an analysis of two other rituals which appeared on the scene at the same time : covenantal ( male ) circumcision and the regulations surrounding menstruation and childbirth . |
| 10 | At the Aug. 6 UN Security Council vote on the imposition of wide-ranging sanctions on Iraq [ see below ] , the Yemeni permanent representative abstained , and Yemen again abstained on the vote at the Arab League Cairo summit . |
| 11 | Then he stopped and leaned on the rail at the top of the companionway , staring with unseeing eyes at the deck below . |
| 12 | They froze on the spot at the sight of that hideous snapshot ; at the sight of the grotesque , massive shape in the act of bearing down upon those windows ; charging headlong in an insane frenzy towards them . |
| 13 | Sunlight glittered on the snow at the peaks and on the tiny white houses below . |