Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 2 | Below , the prisoners sat at the far side of a rank of yellow-decked tables , with their little visitors — women , kids , the old — ranged opposite on kitchen chairs . |
| 3 | It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world . |
| 4 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
| 5 | The most serious of the disorders occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate , in Tottenham , London . |
| 6 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
| 7 | Speaking in tongues , as the disciples did at the original Pentecost , is said to be commonplace . |
| 8 | The shepherd poured some wine from a tattered straw flask into four greasy tumblers and the men sat at the oil-cloth-covered table . |
| 9 | The phylogenetic tree indicates that the taxa diverged at the same time as did the mitochondrial LSUrRNA introns ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 10 | The Gnomes sat at the far table , eating and drinking happily , whiling away an amiable half hour by telling anyone who would listen the entire history of the Crown Jewels and the history of the Gallan forges . |
| 11 | Ecstasy , Cannabis , and LSD : The drugs siezed at a LEGAL rave . |
| 12 | One of the boatmen grinned at a green-faced Maltote . |
| 13 | The nomes stared at the innocent little tray . |