Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | About 30 journalists turned up at the Thai border village of Pong Nam Ron , about 200 miles east of Bangkok , yesterday morning , but were told by the local Thai military commander that he knew of no Vietnamese prisoners . |
| 2 | As half a dozen cannons flashed simultaneously at the ramparts , gaps appeared in the ranks of charging men and horses thrashed to the ground … |
| 3 | THE SENDER of the letter threatening Luca Cumani with violence unless he saddles the heavily backed Shellac in Saturday 's Cambridgeshire will have been appeased , temporarily at least , by the fact that the colt was one of 42 horses declared yesterday at the five-day stage for the race , writes John Cobb . |
| 4 | Of the five schemes targeted directly at the unemployed , he particularly welcomed the new Education Allowance and also found the Community Action programme ‘ interesting ’ although he wants to see further details . |
| 5 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |
| 6 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 7 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 8 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 9 | Post mortem examinations are being carried out on the two bodies found yesterday at the foot of a mountain ridge on the Isle of Skye . |
| 10 | Together the two men looked again at the light wound , stretching down diagonally from the back of the neck towards the armpit . |
| 11 | Nearly 200 vehicles pulled up at the roadside on the A38 just south of Gloucester . |
| 12 | When the two sides met again at the hill station of Dalat in April 1946 it was obvious that the immediate disagreement was on the nature of the Indochina Federation and whether or not the Government of Vietnam , which the French had already recognized , was anything more than the Republic of Tonkin . |
| 13 | Half an hour before the match started two tractors pulled up at the swing bridge , the drivers got out and had a short discussion and proceeded to plough up the field opposite my peg . |
| 14 | About 20 travellers turned up at the court as one of their group , Gary Frost , 28 , father of a year-old daughter , was due to appear from custody . |
| 15 | Only six out of the school 's 260 pupils turned up at the school , and four of them were later picked up by their parents and returned home . |