Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington ladies held Boston well away from home and on the two rinks who played at the Morrison Centre . |
| 2 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 3 | Jose Ramon , a new chef who arrived at the Guernica two months ago , will hopefully maintain these high standards . |
| 4 | At Alice Fernie and Stanley Curtis who stood at the Fernies ' gate . |
| 5 | But Downes appeared not to hear the supplementary questions , and Dixon nodded to the constable who stood at the door , the latter now making for the canteen on a less than wholly specific mission . |
| 6 | ‘ He liberated us from the Turks and fought for our independence , ’ said a small boy who waited at the quayside amid a jostling crowd of former monarchs , visiting Serbian bishops and television crews . |
| 7 | It was the youngest child who hacked at the wood . |
| 8 | This hotel was at that time a sort of private dwelling crammed with the owner 's collection of Catalan works of art and pastel portraits of the great singers who appeared at the nearby Opera . |
| 9 | In Scottish legal history he is remembered also as the Judge who presided at the trial of Burke and Hare , the Edinburgh body-snatchers who turned to murder . |
| 10 | Big Irish Tom had pulled down his shorts and grabbed his willy to show everyone that he was truly a boy and not some soppy little girl who fainted at the sight of turkey innards . |
| 11 | Should the Scots qualify for the quarter-finals , their most likely opponents are Western Samoa , fielding the personnel who triumphed at the Canberra event . |
| 12 | Stuart Ward has taken over from Bill Davidson who retired at the end of last year . |
| 13 | But it 's not so brilliant for any shareholders who sold at the float price . |
| 14 | Victory was clinched when Lynn Marriner surged upfield and slipped a pass through to Oehlers who scored at the second attempt . |
| 15 | The heroes of the faith who died at the hands of the persecutor had long enjoyed special honour among Christians , as , before them , among Jews . |
| 16 | IN THE early 1920s , one of the daughters of the Reverend Puxley who resided at the rectory at that time , was playing on the lawn , then separated from the road by a thick laurel hedge . |
| 17 | The first was Helen 's return to 6 Patten Road for a ten-day holiday before she began work in London as governess to Horst , the young son of M. and Mme Roman who lived at the Hotel Metropole . |
| 18 | The Board 's exhibiting at shows had a limited value since it was often only those already in training groups who called at the stand . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Reasons for decisions referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above ma be required to be given by the board in writing on a request being ma e to the clerk of the board , not more than 48 hours after the decision is made , by the applicant or , as the case may be , by the holder of the licence , or by any objector , or by any complainer who appeared at the hearing . |
| 20 | the attaching or refusal to attach a condition under s.38(3) or 5.101(2) of the Act , the right of appeal being conferred on applicants and unsuccessful competent objectors who appeared at the hearing ( s. 17(6) ) , a refusal to affirm or declare final a provisional grant ( s.26(10) ) , the right of appeal being limited to the applicant , the making of a suspension order ( s.31(8) ) or a closure order ( s.32(7) , the right of appeal being limited to the licence-holder ) , the suspending of a licence under s.36 where the licence-holder fails to execute structural alterations , the refusal to cancel such a suspension ( s.36(8) , the right of appeal being limited to the licence-holder ) , the decisions referred to in 5.44 relating to seamen 's canteens ( the right of appeal being limited to the licence-holder or the applicant ) , the making of a restriction order ( s.65(8) ) , the right of appeal being limited to the registered club , or licence-holder concerned and any complainer who appeared at the hearing , the granting or refusal of an application by a public house licence-holder for Sunday opening at the premises ( the right of appeal being conferred on both an unsuccessful applicant and an unsuccessful objector ( Sched. 4 , Part I , paras . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) 5.18(2) confers the right on an applicant , licence-holder , objector or complainer who appeared at the hearing to request that the board give their reasons for their decision in writing . |
| 22 | Catherine and Donald Carswell were a husband and wife literary team who flourished at the same time as another pair , Willa and Edwin Muir . |
| 23 | A State funeral mass has been held in Rome for the film director who died at the weekend . |
| 24 | The porcelain produced at Chelsea was said to compare with Dresden 's fine china and there was always keen competition amongst dealers who waited at the doors to purchase pieces as soon as they emerged from the ovens . |
| 25 | Yet another story tells of a young ostler who worked at the inn . |
| 26 | ‘ We ’ turned out to be a husband who worked at the London HQ of an oil company and two children , a boy of twelve and a girl of fifteen , both at boarding school . |
| 27 | He lowered his head further , until he was drinking in the sweetness of her loins with his nose and his lips , kissing and teasing , sucking the tiny proud god who reared at the entrance to the Cave as she sighed and groaned softly far above him . |
| 28 | Investors who bought at the peak have lost heavily ; today the price is only around $380 . |
| 29 | The person who sat at the side of the Secretary of State was the regional officer from Leeds . |
| 30 | ‘ I used to run competitions offering a free T-shirt to the first person who arrived at the station with a burger and chips . |