Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE world 's first museum to the humble sardine has opened at Grau-du-Roi on the coast of southern France — and is hoping to be tightly packed with thousands of visitors . |
| 2 | Bournemouth must have felt at home on a pitch which resembled a beach after the tide had receded . |
| 3 | Thus by 1930 , when a Roman would still have felt at home on an Andalusian estate , Catalonia contained some of the largest textile concerns in Europe and the immigrant labour , which poured into the Catalan towns in order to escape the wretchedness of rural life , brought into the labour movements of a modern industrial civilization the millenarian tradition of peasants and landless labourers . |
| 4 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |
| 5 | He had the bogus Red Cross form which I had seen at Amsterdam on his lap . |
| 6 | Then Mr Lewis began to report certain remarks his lordship and others had made at dinner on that first evening after his arrival . |
| 7 | The subsequent history of the town is confused ; by 1564 its trade was said to be in decline , and it sustained a further blow when William 's son retired to the fine house he had built at Shaw on the outskirts of the borough , leaving his men to sing ruefully : |
| 8 | There is no specific evidence for his recapture , but it was announced in parliament in the autumn that he had died at Berkeley on 21 September . |
| 9 | The numbers under his command had grown since he bad re-crossed the Border , with the accession of some additional clans and the arrival of 800 men , Scots and Irish formerly in the French service , including two squadrons of horse , who had landed at Montrose on 22 November . |
| 10 | He was engulfed once more in an indescribable peace , and knew again , as he had known at dawn on the outskirts of Zweeloo , that he belonged to life , that the primal desire of man is to come into being , to achieve this peace . |
| 11 | In a wider sense , however , the real significance of what had happened at Bleiburg on 15 May was that it was the last major surrender of the European war . |
| 12 | Although James Stewart had fought at Culloden on 16 April 1746 , as a captain in the Appin Regiment , his talents were entrepreneurial rather than military . |
| 13 | Among them was G. H. Hitchings , who had worked at Harvard on the quantitative estimation of purines and on the purification of the anti-anaemia principle in liver , and at Western Reserve on studies which led later to the discovery of folic acid . |
| 14 | In 1942 he came to the Research Laboratories which Burroughs Wellcome had established at Tuckahoe on the outskirts of New York . |
| 15 | In this chapter we have looked at influences on public perceptions of politics , not at influences upon attitudes . |
| 16 | Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ . |
| 17 | Over the years one thousand seven hundred people have worked at Harwell on these two reactors . |