Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victim ‘ improves ’ : Doctors treating Michael Gibson , 20 , who was attacked in Darlington at the weekend have said his condition is improving and he has been taken off the critical list at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 2 | Caught in Berlin at the outbreak of war she was able to reach London , where she had already formed her own ballet company under Dandré 's management . |
| 3 | His history included malaria caught in Nigeria at the age of 11 and treated uneventfully with quinine . |
| 4 | Here a useful parallel may be found not in law , but in Remigius 's admonition addressed to Clovis at the start of his reign : although the king was still pagan he was advised to listen to his bishops . |
| 5 | Anne Talintyre , a PE teacher and later tutor at Leeds Athletic Institute , was captivated by Medau at the Wembley Festival . |
| 6 | EDITED BY SHERMAN AT THE CONTROLS |
| 7 | EDITED BY SHERMAN AT THE CONTROLS |
| 8 | EDINBURGH 's chances of reaching the semi-finals of the University Athletic Union competition were buried when they were overwhelmed by Durham at the Racecourse Ground yesterday . |
| 9 | It seemed very important just then to remember exactly what she had felt for Anthony at the beginning . |
| 10 | Cardiff–based single–car unit No 55032 carrying the dragon and red ‘ V ’ of Provincial 's Welsh ‘ Valley Lines ’ is seen near Porth at the head of a Barry Island to Treherbert train on 15 August 1985 . |
| 11 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |
| 12 | By any standard the industry was not extensive : Berkshire was bracketed with Herefordshire at the bottom of a list of clothiers fined at Blackwell Hall in 1561 — 2 for marketing substandard cloth , with just one offender , a Reading man ; unless Berkshire workmanship in general was above average , production was clearly small in volume . |
| 13 | Representatives from countries all over the world met in Nairobi at the end of June to discuss the greenhouse effect . |
| 14 | No less than three UIA work groups met in the UK last year — the Public Health group met in London at the time of the International Hospital Federation conference ; the Region 1 Habitat group met in Birmingham ; and the Architecture in Primary Schools group 2 as associated with the successful BET event in Cambridge . |
| 15 | With Britain playing a prominent role , government officials met in Geneva at the beginning of December 1958 to discuss , without being bound in any way by their own governments , the possibility of rescuing a smaller free trade area from the wreck of Maudling . |
| 16 | Taxes were too high and the state bureaucracy too large and too much power had become centralized in Washington at the expense of the states . |
| 17 | A fine draughtsman and noted expert in perspective , he was the first president of the Liverpool Society of Arts and exhibited in London at the Society of Artists . |
| 18 | It can then be seen in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum from 2 April until 16 May . |
| 19 | This comment was made in Cairo at the beginning of a visit to the region which also involved tense discussions in Israel [ see p. 37760 ] . |
| 20 | When he was transferred to Jakarta at the time of growing tension between Britain and Indonesia , there were ominous signs that action was intended against the British Embassy . |
| 21 | Durham Greens will be joining a national CND demonstration against Trident when the first submarine is named at Barrow-in-Furness at the end of the month . |
| 22 | That is what is threatened at Thurcroft at the moment . |
| 23 | Austria was so totally defeated by Prussia at the battle of Sadowa in July 1866 that any attempt at mediation by France would have been rejected out of hand at Berlin , where it was known that such mediation would be a paper exercise with no military back-up . |
| 24 | The assertion that Bayezid 's reign was felt to be essentially a godless one finds confirmation in the view taken by the earliest Ottoman historians of the crushing defeat suffered by Bayezid at the hands of Timur in 1402 near Ankara and the subsequent chaos in the Ottoman state . |
| 25 | This appears to have been accepted by Egypt at the time of the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company . |
| 26 | Zamora — he 's probably related to the guy Wayne beat on his Los Angeles debut five weeks ago ( who knows ? ) — hung in gallantly to weather the storm and was warmly embraced by McCullough at the finish . |
| 27 | On the basis that these remedial measures were in hand , the judge did not grant the injunction sought by SPAG at the end of March 1985 . |
| 28 | On June 12 , in the midst of rumours of an attempted coup by the outgoing government — an accusation made by Walesa at the Solidarity congress [ see below ] — Milczanowski ascertained that Piotr Naimski , head of the State Security Office , had ordered Interior Ministry troops on to alert on June 4 . |
| 29 | Of the 5,500 tanks possessed by Iraq at the outbreak of war , 4,200 had been based in the Kuwaiti theatre , and 3,500 of these were reported to have been destroyed or captured . |
| 30 | The procedure was explained by one of the most celebrated sculptors of icons in India , Acharya Sri Hanumanthacharya , whose idol-adorned gardens and studio are situated near Bangalore at the township of Devanahalli . |