Example sentences of "[vb past] a [noun] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and found a dolphin turning at the tide 's hem |
| 2 | Basingstoke scored a consolation try at the end , but Alresford had won a game they made difficult by failing to capitalise on their superior backs and fitness . |
| 3 | Out of all this came a resolution passed at the District AGM the following November . |
| 4 | I climbed a wall to drink at the beck , sitting for a while on its banks in the sun before walking on up the legionaries ' highway crossing the Burtersett road under Green Scar Mire and heading up towards Fleet Moss and Kidhow Gate . |
| 5 | ‘ Where is the Christ Child ? ’ she asked a woman washing at the well . |
| 6 | The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN . |
| 7 | This followed a demand tabled at the Supreme Soviet in November that prime ministerial nominees be presented to Congress for approval [ see p. 39202 ] . |
| 8 | In 1648 he was promoted lieutenant-colonel and deputy governor and signed a letter protesting at the treaty with the king at Newport . |
| 9 | Yesterday afternoon , they discovered a body buried at the back of a house in Swindon 's Old Town . |
| 10 | She was just in the middle of doing her hair when she heard a light tap at the door , followed by the sound of Candy 's voice . |
| 11 | Not for the first time this season Tyson needed a police escort at the end as he was surrounded by protesting players . |
| 12 | Julian Dicks , the West Ham captain , was sent off in the 61st minute for a late tackle on Wise and the referee , Alf Buksh , needed a police escort at the end of the tie , which West Ham won 1-0 . |
| 13 | As he turned his head away she saw a muscle jumping at the point of his jaw . |
| 14 | On 16 June he attended a dinner held at the Imperial Hotel , Blackpool , during the British Poster Advertising Conference , possibly in connection with the GPO 's decision to commission artists ' posters as part of their ‘ Please use your correct address ’ scheme . |
| 15 | Some 400 local people attended a protest meeting at the weekend and will hold a demonstration to coincide with the planning talks . |
| 16 | Some women wore a cloak fastened at the shoulder or breast , and some gathered clothing in at the waist with a girdle , usually secured with a buckle . |
| 17 | Aunt Ema wore a scarf knotted at the back of her head in the way particular to women of the Kras , and she was always smiling . |
| 18 | THE EPPING Forest/Redbridge and Ludlow/Hereford Groups organised a benefit reading at the Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival . |
| 19 | Its left arm aimed a las cannon at the Emperor 's carapace . |
| 20 | It was through an introduction made by Otto that Jean-Claude had a composition performed at the Club d'Essai . |
| 21 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to look at the Order Paper recently ? |
| 22 | ‘ It would give a better idea of the effectiveness of co-operation if the public had a chance to look at the frequency with which bombs are transported into Northern Ireland in vehicles stolen in the Republic . |
| 23 | Slides were used to punctuate the talk , as well as to illustrate points , but he had a tendency to look at the screen while speaking , which is distracting . |
| 24 | Ellwood did n't want the limelight ; he had a cover to preserve at the Base . |
| 25 | If Claudine had a friend staying at the château then Alain was showing that he also had a willing friend . |
| 26 | Cnut had a church built at the site of the battle , and it was consecrated in 1020 , at about the same time that he allowed the replacement of clerics by monks in St Edmund 's church at Bury . |
| 27 | The Light Blues had a half-length lead at the Old Ship but with Gardiner setting an excellent rhythm , and with Davy , Maclennan and Bridge backing magnificently , Oxford were holding on in flat water . |
| 28 | And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there . |
| 29 | Well at the moment with the the mining industry as it is , unless you 've got had you 've got or had a relative working at the pit , the local , you have n't got the s chance of in . |
| 30 | The question for the court was whether on July 9 , 1921 , the police authorities acting , reasonably and in good faith , considered a police garrison at the colliery necessary for the protection of life and property from violence , or , in other words , whether the decision of the chief constable in refusing special protection unless paid for was such a decision as a man in his position and with his duties could reasonably take . |