Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Co-operation 2.1 demonstrated at the San Francisco bash |
6 | Mrs Fry was kind , she helped at the WRVS . |
7 | One example of dump leaching is that used at the Kennecott Chino Mine in New Mexico , USA , from which there is a daily yield of cement copper of 45–50 t ( Pooley 1987 ) . |
8 | Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show . |
9 | No doubt you have spotted the ‘ Proby Pack ’ , as we call ourselves , clustered at the Sewage Lane end , our shaven heads painted with such menacing slogans as ‘ Cut out the long balls ’ or , on a couple of big heads , ‘ Using two sweepers is a tactical error , Les ’ . |
10 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
11 | They stopped at the Zebra Crossing and Pete watched the big lorries and buses and cars roar past . |
12 | Anne trained at the Constance Spry School and trades under the name Farmhouse Flora . |
13 | Knowing she had to support herself , they paid her while she trained at the Manchester school . |
14 | He trained at the Swindon works , and in Chester and Bristol . |
15 | The research aims to find out whether there is a specifically Scottish corporatism that can be distinguished from that found at the UK level . |
16 | The execution-style killings occurred at the Wat Promkunaram temple , the second-largest site of Buddhist worship in the country , built in 1988 in a remote location 20 miles west of Phoenix . |
17 | The accident occurred at the Mihama plant near Fukui , some 350 km west of Tokyo . |
18 | No-one was hurt in the incident , which occurred at the Mihama plant near Fukui , some 220 miles west of Tokyo . |
19 | In June 1959 , however , the last performance occurred at the Chiswick Empire which was then pulled down and the site redeveloped as a tower office block , originally named ‘ Empire House ’ , but later that name did not prove acceptable to some local government officials , who considered that the name smacked of imperialism , so the block now has only numbers in Chiswick High Road . |
20 | A further important step towards normalization occurred at the CPV 's seventh congress in June 1991 when the long-serving Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach , a leading opponent of a pro-Chinese foreign policy , was removed from the politburo ( being replaced in his ministerial capacity in August ) . |
21 | Unlimited costs for lawyers fees ( not fines ) provided at the AA 's discretion , if a member of the party is prosecuted for an alleged motoring offence overseas . |
22 | He was certainly in Wales in mid June 1470 when , as justiciar , he presided at the Carmarthenshire great sessions . |
23 | He was certainly in Wales in mid June 1470 when , as justiciar , he presided at the Carmarthenshire great sessions . |
24 | Aideed 's supporters , angered by what they saw as US support for a rival warlord , Mohamed Said Hersi , stoned and shouted at the US forces , chanting at them : ‘ Go Home Americans ’ and ‘ Down With America . ’ |
25 | Aideed 's supporters , angered by what they saw as US support for a rival warlord , Mohamed Said Hersi , stoned and shouted at the US forces : ‘ Go Home Americans ’ and ‘ Down With America . ’ |
26 | Senior , twice , Whitlock and Wood , once each , headed at the Welling goal in extra-time but the Wings did not deserve to be clipped . |
27 | The terrifying blast erupted at the Hickson and Welch chemical works near Castleford rugby league ground at 1.20pm yesterday . |
28 | Haram , who studied at the Guildhall School of Music , made his London debut at the Barbican performing Richard Rodney Bennett 's Alto Saxophone Concerto . |
29 | Jacob studied at the Yeshiva de los Pintos at Rotterdam and at the age of twenty-five was already a rabbi in Amsterdam . |
30 | I studied at the Scuole Medie in the Istituto Melloni , which would enable me , after four years , to choose either a classical or a scientific education by taking the appropriate examination . |