Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 2 | Cornelius was stumbling along behind , marvelling at the Edinburgh Mercury . |
| 3 | Even his new team-mate , the much-lamented François Cevert , won at the Glen in that car . |
| 4 | If you could n't afford the original records , there were smaller ones you could buy at the Woolworths in the King 's Road , which sounded quite like . |
| 5 | Please talk to your class members and let us know at the March QT DAY if you feel there would be support for the idea . |
| 6 | More than 120 people have signed up for the six courses and a regular programme of similar events is now likely to be organised at the Wivenhoe Park campus , near Colchester . |
| 7 | He faces a four-year ban after failing a drugs test at the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 8 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 9 | Opening at the Brixton Academy , the tour visited the most gigantic venues in the south before moving slowly northwards and back again to climax at the ultra-prestigious Royal Albert Hall . |
| 10 | For perhaps only the second time since the Turner Prize was inaugurated in 1984 , the jury , comprising Nicholas Serota , Director of the Tate Gallery , Marie-Claude Beaud , Director of the Cartier Foundation , Robert Hopper , Director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust , Time Out 's art critic , Sarah Kent , and collector and director of CNN 's European operations , Howard Karshan , has compiled a genuinely balanced short-list of artists whose work will be shown in an exhibition opening at the Tate Gallery at the beginning of this month ( 4–29 November ) and from whom a winner will be announced at a formal dinner taking place at the museum on 24 November . |
| 11 | The exhibition opening at the Hayward Gallery towards the end of this month ( 21 May-2 August ) is the most significant presentation of the art of Magritte since the survey mounted for the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1978–79 . |
| 12 | The Bund will therefore bear the responsibility for the DM1 million ( £357,000 ; $714,000 ) insurance premium for the exhibition opening at the Bonn Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle on 16 October , ‘ Great Collections I : The Museum of Modern Art , New York , From Cézanne to Pollock ’ ( until 10 January 1993 ) . |
| 13 | Long considered one of the leading exponents of British Pop Art , and a major figure painter of his generation , Patrick Caulfield is the subject of a survey covering his thirty-year career and opening at the Serpentine Gallery towards the end of this month ( 24 November-17 January 1993 ) . |
| 14 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 15 | Close co-operation between SWAPO and the Nordic countries continued , with Sweden , Denmark , Finland and Norway contributing a third of all Western promised at the June international donors ' conference . |
| 16 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 17 | Co-operation 2.1 demonstrated at the San Francisco bash |
| 18 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 19 | He was educated at the Liceo Dante and the Instituto Technico , Florence , and studied portrait painting in Paris , which he abandoned in 1888 to travel round the world . |
| 20 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 21 | Winnicott was educated at The Leys School , Cambridge , and then at Jesus College , Cambridge , where he gained a third class in part i of the natural sciences tripos in 1917 , as a preliminary to qualifying in medicine . |
| 22 | Harry Ward , a 27-year-old born-deaf man orally educated at the Llandaff School in Cardiff and possessing excellent lipreading skills , managed to follow his three brothers into the Munster Regiment and undergo training at the Curragh Camp in Ireland . |
| 23 | Gower Jones , who was also educated at the Llandaff School , managed to enlist in the Monmouthshire Regiment despite being blind in one eye . |
| 24 | He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy ; Trinity College , Oxford ; and the University of Edinburgh . |
| 25 | Bell was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and entered the University of Edinburgh at the early age of sixteen , graduating MD in 1859 . |
| 26 | He was educated at the Edinburgh High School ( 1850–3 ) and as a schoolboy he joined in the geological rambles of his brother Archibald and John Young , the future professor of natural history at Glasgow University . |
| 27 | He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution , then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh , where he graduated MD and LRCS in 1847 . |
| 28 | Michael was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Mill Hill School in London . |
| 29 | He was educated at the Kingston-upon-Hull grammar school and graduated BA at Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1784 . |
| 30 | He was educated at the Canongate Burgh School , Edinburgh , and the University of Edinburgh ( 1845–7 , 1851–7 ) where he read arts and divinity but did not proceed to graduate . |