Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We continued with our three-man tent , a Phoenix Phor-3 , and I must say , the extra space was much appreciated on several occasions , not least on 6 August when it snowed all day and I thrashed Pete at cards . |
| 2 | It also , however , involved conversions at grass-roots level , for in the course of the sixteenth century the people of England ceased to be overwhelmingly Catholic and became predominantly Protestant . |
| 3 | ‘ Hundreds [ of shareholders ] have for years maintained guarantees at banks ’ , continued the article , ‘ and thousands have helped to create clubs by taking shares without hope of seeing their money back or any return on it . ’ |
| 4 | Emerson and Jackie swopped positions at Brands Hatch , with both of them missing gears at critical points and having to drive some time in oil thrown up by Ickx 's Ferrari . |
| 5 | James Stephen provided encouragement at signs of progress in the operation of amelioration measures in the Crown Colonies but required recommitment from the representatives of the cause in the work still to be done , particularly in pressing change upon the legislative colonies . |
| 6 | Teacher Betty Weller says : ‘ Our school had a mascot known as Freddy Bird which made appearances at sports events , functions and parades . |
| 7 | Mr Richardson said : ‘ He caused havoc at universities all round the world , so the computer systems were inaccessible to anyone but him . |
| 8 | A joint certification agreement with the Hairdressing Training Council added SVQs at levels II and III to the framework . |
| 9 | Even the unsympathetic could not but be impressed , and when Charlotte Poole , Tom 's cousin , met Coleridge at Marshmills that month , she mingled her disapproval with admiration , setting him down in her journal as ‘ a young man of brilliant understanding , great eloquence , desperate fortune , democratick principles , and entirely led away by the feelings of the moment ’ . |
| 10 | The family was all that the Young Republicans could have wished for : the mother threw crockery at police and bailiffs and the son offered physical resistance when police broke through the barricades . |
| 11 | Kenneth Prescott declared steroids at Customs |
| 12 | The monkey won after the experts buried themselves in their portfolios while the chimp , called Ola , threw darts at names of companies listed on the Stockholm exchange . |
| 13 | I hated the cold nights , hated Ron at times , but I kept at it . |
| 14 | Trade unionists threw rocks at police who used tear gas to disperse a large demonstration outside the Stock Exchange in Rio de Janeiro on the day of the sale ; over 90 people ( 48 of them police ) were reportedly injured . |
| 15 | The un-named man bet £3,000 at odds of 4-1 last Aprilhe won £12,000 , plus his original stake . |
| 16 | It may not be a coincidence , therefore , that four of the five individuals who developed leukaemia at ages 5–24 in Thurso in the years 1979–88 were incomers — and also that four were born in the years 1969–74 , the birth cohort with the greatest proportion of incomers . |
| 17 | A spokesman for giant Unigate , which delivers to 1½m households via 2,800 milk rounds , expressed concern at proposals to abolish the Milk Marketing Board . |
| 18 | They were born of frustration and powerlessness , expressed resentment at contradictions between rhetoric and practice in an idiom which was sustained by modern technology and strengthened by its effectiveness in legitimate affairs . |
| 19 | He spent Christmas at Poitiers with Charles and Judith . |
| 20 | These places were all villages really , you got to know the neighbours , met people at parties and , given that you were a middle-class professional person , there was a limited number of like people it was possible to meet . |
| 21 | They lost concentration at times with a big lead behind them . |
| 22 | In Herefordshire , between 1951 and 1971 Hereford Rural District grew by 10 per cent as a result of expansion in the nearby city , and the remainder of the rural districts lost population at rates ranging between 3.8 and 20 per cent ( Dunn 1976 ) . |
| 23 | His best bet of the day , impressive Lingfield winner Carlowitz ( 5-1 ) , coupled with next best El Volador ( 11-8 ) rewarded followers at odds of over 13-1 . |
| 24 | Oddly enough , however , it was also a highly confusing time , as the debate — in this country at least — took place at arms length . |
| 25 | Important land transactions probably often took place at meetings , and charter witness lists are valuable evidence on the king 's major followers , and , if enough survive , the careers of bishops , abbots , ealdormen and thegns can to some extent be reconstructed from them . |
| 26 | The ceremony took place at Fountains Abbey , near Ripon , on the anniversary of the original being signed , 777 years ago . |
| 27 | EUROTUNNEL shares continued to plunge in London and Paris yesterday as investors took fright at indications that the spiralling costs of the Channel tunnel would not be offset by increased traffic estimates . |
| 28 | From time to time she hissed instructions at teachers or senior girls . |
| 29 | She found herself talking too , drawn by some required exchange of confidences and a dislike of being on her own , discussing the gardens , the weather , other people 's dogs , safe everyday subjects , in the way she made conversation at parties to people she had n't met before . |
| 30 | In addition to exploration success recorded in the Irish Sea , in the Southern North Sea LASMO made a gas discovery in its first well on operated block 44/16 [ LASMO 40 per cent ] which tested gas at rates of over 30 mmcfd . |