Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bosnian government has protested at the UNHCR 's failure to reach the Muslims in the east by refusing to accept UN aid for the besieged capital , Sarajevo . |
| 2 | Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ? |
| 3 | And the improvements it has produced at the Bridgwater , UK , company , which makes high technology flexible packaging material , have already impressed several key customers . |
| 4 | A major survey of the art of Juan Gris has opened at the Whitechapel Art Gallery ( to 29 November ) . |
| 5 | The most interesting show out of London is Miro : Sculpture , which has opened at the Southampton City Art Gallery ; 37 bronzes are on show , each one of them made by a Catalan , anarchist , sex-mad Santa Claus |
| 6 | This will be the fourth time the World Cup has opened at the Utah resort , the third time for women . |
| 7 | She has sung at the Banff Centre in Canada , for Opera Roundabout , at Covent Garden and for the Royal Opera at the Donmar Warehouse . |
| 8 | The first ever freckled duck to be born outside Australia has hatched at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands trust.The bird is under threat in its drought stricken homeland , so conservationists are delighted about the birth . |
| 9 | Redfern launched a circulating exhibition of recent graphic works at the beginning of the year , there has been a print survey at New York 's Museum of Modern Art , and now a collection of important and fragile pictures dating from the Fifties and Sixties , coordinated by the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona and already seen at IVAM in Valencia , has arrived at the Serpentine Gallery ( to 9 August ) . |
| 10 | She has spoken at the UN and given lectures abroad in which she has tried to draw attention to Central America 's most beautiful and most tragic republic . |
| 11 | Dr Jopek , forty-one , completed his doctorate on German fifteenth-century alabasters in 1984 , and has worked at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and for the episcopal administration and Amt für Denkmalpflege ( protection of monuments ) in Trier . |
| 12 | Maybe the wind has changed at the Victoria Ground . |
| 13 | It was cold in London compared to the unnatural steamy heat they 'd suffered at the Paul Ricard circuit . |
| 14 | I 'd arrived at the Greenwood Theatre too late to hear Jonathan Ross get off his intro-line about Fashanu ‘ scoring ’ at the weekend . |
| 15 | But , you see Bob told me about it , he said , well he , you know booked at the Claremont because he 'd had problems getting prices out of the others . |
| 16 | The greatest of 'em all , Abraham Lincoln , received a belated musical nod during 1968 , when songwriter Dick Holler linked the 16th President 's name to that of the Kennedy 's and Martin Luther King to provide Dion with a three million seller in ‘ Abraham , Martin And John ’ , while Ulysses Simpson Grant , the next Republican to be called to office in Lincoln 's wake , was hailed by Patrick Gilmore 's ‘ President Grant 's March ’ , which still gets played at the White House during various ceremonies , though far older is ‘ Hail To The Chief ’ , a ditty based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott , which was first played at the inauguration of James Knox Polk , in 1845 , and has been retained to announce the arrival of presidents ever since . |
| 17 | Taskopruzade quotes from his father these words of Hocazade 's : " At the time when I was at the Sultan medrese in Bursa I was thirty-three years old and loved nothing save Taskopruzade goes on to say that Hocazade used to take more pride in having taught at the Sultan medrese than in having been kazasker or Mehmed II's Hoca . |
| 18 | The whole place stank of money : much more money than the singer could have earned at the Kitty Kat Club . |
| 19 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 20 | Christine Campbell 's body had remained hidden at the Swindon Guest House for several days . |
| 21 | On 7 December 1988 , al-Megrahi was alleged to have called at the Sliema boutique and bought the odd assortment of clothes that were used to wrap around the radio bomb . |
| 22 | Later , when she came to seek employment elsewhere , she could claim to have appeared at the Vienna Opera , and the record would confirm it . ’ |
| 23 | Previous popes had been in France , and the teaching of the school of St Victor in Paris and of Peter Abelard was known to them , but Innocent III may have been the first pope to have studied at the Paris schools . |
| 24 | In September 1977 , my girlfriend Lynn and I eloped and tried to get married at the Ali-Shavers bout . |
| 25 | Earlier , China had protested at the Dalai Lama 's visit to Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia . |
| 26 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 27 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 28 | Mona had recovered from whatever embarrassment she had felt at the Eliot knife becoming common knowledge , and said crisply : ‘ I ca n't believe that 's true about Pascoe , Alex . ’ |
| 29 | Germany 's Chancellor Helmut Kohl was unable or unwilling to deliver what the Americans thought he had promised at the Houston summit it last July — political muscle to make progress on farm-reform at the GATT talks . |
| 30 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |