Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shrilling overhead , the hurricane clawed at the leaf canopy of the rain forest , tearing great holes in it . |
| 2 | So it was last Tuesday night , when the change allowed at the end of our whacky version of five-card rolling draw brought your correspondent the most beautiful five of spades he had ever seen — face down what 's more — to go with the A-2-3-4 he was showing . |
| 3 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 4 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council were changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 5 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council was changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 6 | E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory . |
| 7 | I lay on my back , my head on the sandy ground , staring out to the side where the body of the buck lay at the end of a little curved line of black , and tangled in the arm-rest and grip of the catapult . |
| 8 | A number of anecdotes relate the corruption , greed and ignorance of the ulema and the discontent felt at the introduction of the administrative practices of high Islam and especially its fiscal policy . |
| 9 | The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM . |
| 10 | Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war |
| 11 | The silt stayed at the bottom , however , and the bank remained porous . |
| 12 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 13 | The Archdeacon looked at the Inspector kindly , as at a son who has much to learn . |
| 14 | The statue stood at the centre of the Hall of Celestial Destinies in Nantes spaceport , the huge , bronze figures raised high above the executive-class travellers who bustled like ants about its base . |
| 15 | ‘ As the rules stood at the time , the League had no choice but to order the game to be replayed over a full 90 minutes . |
| 16 | The yacht unveiled at the show was trimmed out in red-stained mahogany , although teak is an alternative . |
| 17 | The researchers looked at the amplitude of the brain-waves and the latency of the brain 's response to the stimulus . |
| 18 | The all-women party was in full swing when the PC called at the Compass Inn at Cheltenham , Glos , where a strip-o-gram was expected . |
| 19 | The skin puckered at the side of his lips again , this time into a sneer rather than a smile , although with Swod Blanche found it difficult to tell the difference . |
| 20 | These boys , when tested , were found to have an average IQ of 80 , thus showing a significant degree of recovery from the level reached at the end of the first year . |
| 21 | Daphne Rye got him the part , Binkie Beaumont was the producer , the play opened at the Lyric , Hammersmith , on April 8th , 1957 . |
| 22 | The play opened at the Queen 's Theatre at the end of November 1963 to less than rapturous applause . |
| 23 | The animals shuddered at the word unpleasantness . |
| 24 | Movies had won a considerable audience but that audience would be permanently restricted if the industry remained at the edge of society proper , if it remained a side-show or an underground activity . |
| 25 | Other ears heard the transmission , so by the time the force arrived at the target it was covered by a very effective smokescreen . |
| 26 | But Mrs Countley , whose son suffered a broken arm , said the ambulance arrived at the scene at 1.30pm . |
| 27 | She died before the ambulance arrived at the hospital . |
| 28 | The president sat at the head of the long mahogany table . |
| 29 | The President sat at the table . |
| 30 | ‘ The interview came at the end of a long day . |