Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 2 | In the typical scenario erm you have the parents as villains of the peace , you have the children or the child as being abused , you have ah typically in the er as it were the stereotypical scenario , you have the father doing the abuse , you have a certain amount of responsibility pointed at the mother . |
| 3 | A flicker of admiration showed at the back of his dark eyes . |
| 4 | A tiny knot of tension throbbed at the back of her neck , running the length of her arms to her fingertips . |
| 5 | When the first shaft of light showed at the end of the tunnel it was like waking from a nightmare . |
| 6 | The exhibition ‘ Western painting from the sixteenth to the twentieth century from the Bremen Kunsthalle Collection ’ , the show of some of the works of art looted at the end of World War II , has moved from the Hermitage in St Petersburg to the All-Russian Museum of Decorative , Applied and Folk Art in Moscow . |
| 7 | A roll of corduroy lay at the end of the counter . |
| 8 | In August Andy Warhol 's production of Pork opened at The Roundhouse in London . |
| 9 | In the 1990 edition of the annual United States government review of domestic industrial activity , ‘ Industrial Outlook ’ , the US Department of Commerce looked at the growth trend in printed and electronic information . |
| 10 | More generally , the great weight of basalt erupted at the surface may , in some cases , be sufficient to promote significant isostatic subsidence in the underlying bedrock . |
| 11 | The left 's moment of revenge came at the Labour special conference at Wembley in 1980 . |
| 12 | A further important step towards normalization occurred at the CPV 's seventh congress in June 1991 when the long-serving Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach , a leading opponent of a pro-Chinese foreign policy , was removed from the politburo ( being replaced in his ministerial capacity in August ) . |
| 13 | From less radical perspectives than Webb 's also the religious and political zeal of party seemed at the root of controversy within antislavery . |
| 14 | Explosions and convulsions of heat clawed at the energy shields — an unending succession of ravenous monsters springing into existence just outside , only to die because they could not feed yet , yet being born again instantly . |
| 15 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 16 | Interest in knitting began at the age of nine and resulted in many short stripy scarves ! |
| 17 | The customers in return sneered at the clothing offered to them , and flung it on the ground . |
| 18 | But less than a month later , John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger arrived at the Royal Court , and elegant , well-made drawing-room plays like this were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of theatrical history . |
| 19 | It is a long established rule of law that where a contracting party refuses to perform his contractual obligations by giving a wrong reason , this does not subsequently deprive him of a justification which in fact existed at the time of refusal ( see Taylor v Oakes ( 1922 ) 27 Com Cas 261 ; Braithwaite v Foreign Hardwood Co Ltd [ 1905 ] 2 KB 543 ; and Fercometal SARL v Mediterranean Shipping Co SA [ 1989 ] AC 788 discussed in Chapter 15 ) . |
| 20 | He had occasion to stop the vehicle which was being driven by Mr and he noted that the excise licence which was being displayed had in fact expired at the end of March . |
| 21 | In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract . |
| 22 | After an even opening session and a terrific toe to toe burst at the start of the second it was Oakes who took a grip with McGrath soaking up a steady stream of hard right-hand shots . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ It has been established that a police sergeant on patrol arrived at the scene within minutes . |