Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 2 | The Southern Capital had been divided into eight segments , like slices of the round , flat loaves the Semite guest workers baked , each segment 's inner edge bisecting one of the main quarters of the town , into which it was split by the two main thoroughfares , one running north-to-south , and the other east-to-west , which met at the centre . |
| 3 | He thought about the decadence which existed at the centre of the Empire . |
| 4 | King Edward of England sat in his purple silken pavilion which stood at the centre of his great camp on the green meadows beneath the formidable mass of Nottingham Castle . |
| 5 | By the way — ’ She opened her bag and drew out the incriminating tape , which she put down on the round antique table which stood at the centre of the hall . |
| 6 | A Staffordshire University graduate is organising a reunion for ceramics students who studied at the centre in 1965 when it was North Staffordshire College of Technology . |
| 7 | Great numbers might drift through the drama , of course — thousands in fact — but they could only ever be phantoms , agents or , on rare occasions , reflections of the three real and self-willed beings who stood at the centre . |
| 8 | Yesterday joinery and construction trainees at the New Careers scheme on Darlington 's Faverdale industrial estate were sent home as soon as they arrived at the centre . |
| 9 | He 's a former patient of the Wolfeson , and is cared for by his wife , a nurse who he met at the centre . |
| 10 | He stood at the centre of the Sun Chamber , and a terrible hush fell . |
| 11 | This was what lay at the centre of the metaphysical speculations often pursued by the Symbolists . |