Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Frederick now attempted to have his approved pope , Victor , recognised by Louis VII of France , and both he and Rainald made speeches at the synod at St-Jean-de-Losne declaring that the Emperor had sole authority to decide a papal election . |
2 | It was after nine o'clock , however , by the time he got there , since his route was complicated , and involved calls at the mortuary of the General Hospital , at police headquarters , and a telephone call to the forensic laboratory . |
3 | Amy had screamed for him to stop and , scooping up the kittens , had thrown back her head and howled obscenities at the cruelty of human beings . |
4 | Then in July Iraq concentrated troops at the border . |
5 | He needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he 'd collected on his travelsand decided to build a gothic tower complete with mullioned arched and trefoil windows … crenellated battlements at the top and even a gargoyle to complete the effect . |
6 | According to the Life of Thomas Hardy ‘ they found lodgings at the house of an invalided captain of smacks and ketches ; and Hardy , suspending his house-hunting , settled down for the autumn and winter to finish his fifth novel , The Hand of Ethelberta ’ . |
7 | While parents visited stalls at the Easter fayre , children of Headley Nursery Club played on equipment at the Church Centre . |
8 | He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill . |
9 | Both members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's European Right party , the MEPs shouted insults at the President of the Parliament , Enrique Baron , when he announced the measure barring the far-right party from leading delegations to Israel and Switzerland . |
10 | As Tibbles left the court , she shouted insults at the police . |
11 | The clinical approach to family planning in which medical staff advised upon and provided services at the hospital was replaced by an extension approach in which a vast array of extension agents and network of services in the countryside was set up , using many techniques of marketing and advertising adapted to the Indian context . |
12 | Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in late August 1989 visited prisons at the request of the government , which claimed that organizations such as the permanent human rights commission ( CPDH ) and the support group for families of political prisoners were falsely estimating that there were between 6,000 and 7,000 inmates . |
13 | They had waved and shouted greetings at the Oldenburg party , who in turn had waved back . |
14 | I made visits at the most relevant times during the appraisal , in particular whilst the inspection was under way , so that I could observe the effect it was having on staff . |
15 | ‘ Time is a luxury that Bell Resources may well not have , ’ he told shareholders at the annual meeting in Perth . |
16 | SIR Tom Cowie , chairman of motor retailer and financier T Cowie , told shareholders at the company 's annual meeting that trading in its first quarter was ‘ comfortably ahead ’ of last year . |
17 | THE power base of local schools netball took another shift towards the North West when St Brigid 's , Omagh and their namesakes from Co Derry lifted titles at the Coca-Cola Plate Finals at Shankill Leisure Centre . |
18 | In 1963 ‘ there were some very unpleasant moments ’ , he told journalists at the Soviet Culture Foundation . |
19 | We hired halls at the London School of Economics , the Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden , and the church hall of All Saints in Notting Hill . |
20 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
21 | The mellow stone of the edifice — she hesitated to call it a house — was modelled into an elaborate copy of a French château , complete with round , steepled towers at the corners and an intricate garden laid out in the foreground … |
22 | The profession should stop being so defensive , he told participants at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference in St Andrews last month . |
23 | He stuck his head out of one of the windows of the coach , and roared protests at the policemen who were desperately trying to cope with the traffic confusion . |
24 | ‘ The world recovery is not going according to script ’ Geoffrey Dicks , a senior research fellow at the London Business School , told delegates at the Chemical Industries Association ( CIA ) Business outlook conference in London last month . |
25 | Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall told delegates at the summit that the six members of the Warsaw Pact had agreed to dissolve the alliance by the beginning of 1992 . |
26 | Dubbed the " anti-ghetto " bill by Delebarre who introduced it , it suffered changes at the hands of opposition senators during its reading in the Senate on June 19-21 , which weakened clauses obliging low-income housing to be included in private building developments , and extending state powers of compulsory purchase of land . |
27 | He met new-born babies , and said prayers in the rooms of the dying , and consoled families at the cemetery , and struggled to communicate with teenagers who did not know how to read . |
28 | Rudolf Gutmann had been able to leave the running of the family business to his elder brother while he studied prints at the Albertina . |
29 | Overseas Aid Minister Baroness Chalker condemned conditions at the camps as ‘ beyond an acceptable level of humanity . ’ |
30 | Too often it was not open because social workers were at meetings , he told members at the twenty-fifth AGM . |