Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pigs too were taken to sanctuaries to recover , as the RSPCA worked at the farms for days on end , work which eventually cost the RSPCA £15,000 . |
| 2 | John Chadwick ( 1976 , p. 87 ) comments that the word ‘ Athena ’ has a form suggesting a pre-Greek place-name , so it may be that Athena originated as the Potnia worshipped at a place called Athens or something similar . |
| 3 | The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window . |
| 4 | They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state . |
| 5 | The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day . |
| 6 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 7 | The Archon stared at the general . |
| 8 | The Reichsführer sat at an oak table working his way through a mound of papers . |
| 9 | The Feldwebel stood at the entrance to the corridor turning away people who wanted to come in . |
| 10 | In a detailed paper on the issues involved in opening up disciplinary hearings , the PCD asked at the December Council meeting for guidance before moving forward . |
| 11 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 12 | As the Shah arrived at the White House to be officially welcomed by President Carter , the two groups shouted abuse at each other just beyond police railings . |
| 13 | It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties . |
| 14 | Up the Empire ! ’ to a group of communist students from the UK gathered at the bar of his hotel , promises to do something about the ‘ blooming awful ’ state of Soviet plumbing and ends up making a deal with Stalin with the insouciance of George Formby addressing himself to Hitler . |
| 15 | In fact , as the THES noted at the time , the dispute leading to this crisis had been simmering in relative privacy for some time . |
| 16 | While discussion among the LCY progressed at a slow pace , new parties emerged . |
| 17 | The UFF vowed at the start of the year to step up attacks and warned : You ai n't seen nothing yet . ’ |
| 18 | In late July 1989 Saudi Arabia and the United States opened secret talks to extend the life of a floating military base in the Gulf established at the height of the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 19 | Less than half a century ago the Midland stood at the pinnacle of the financial system , the largest bank in the world . |
| 20 | It arose from a chance encounter at one of the regular community meetings of the YCCC held at a time when they were attempting to reach out to any and all sorts of assistance in solving their pollution problem . |
| 21 | Which is more than can be said of the successors of the first Labour government , elected just when the Elmhirsts arrived at the bankrupt farms and derelict buildings of Dartington . |
| 22 | Although the speculations of a few Italian statesmen about the African shores of the Mediterranean hinted at the patterns of future international rivalry , the powers for the most part displayed in 1880 an almost complete preoccupation with European interests and lack of sensitivity about the rest of the world . |
| 23 | The OECD Economic Outlook indicated that the trade deficit in the USA stabilized at an annual rate $5,000 million lower than in the second half of 1988 . |
| 24 | Several papers report a new invention from the USA aimed at the angling market which is supposed to cause fish to go into a feeding frenzy . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman is right , too , to tell the House of the warning that the Chief Constable of the RUC gave at the end of last week about the potential level of terrorist violence in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 26 | Sculley said he did not believe anyone had been able to build an HDTV set at a reasonable price . |