Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market . |
| 2 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 3 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 4 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 5 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 6 | The coach dropped me at the Lofleiđ3ir , a palatial hotel . |
| 7 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 8 | The suggestions included limiting Congress 's powers only to proposing amendments to the Constitution , and allowing Yeltsin to retain the right granted him at the October-November 1991 extraordinary Congress to appoint ministers without approval from the legislature . |
| 9 | When the plaintiff presented himself at the theatre , the defendant , who was X 's servant and manager of the theatre , detected the plaintiff and refused to admit him . |
| 10 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 11 | The hounds threw themselves at the gate . |
| 12 | During World War II the Keppels established themselves at the Ritz Hotel in London . |
| 13 | The Khan got her at the sack of T'sosei , and when the Kha-Khan — the present one 's father — wanted her for himself , the Khan married her . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll never forget the reception the crowd gave us at the end . ’ |
| 15 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |
| 16 | Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work . |
| 17 | Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig . |
| 18 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |