Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [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 | A pathologist was called shortly after detectives arrived at the warehouse in Ashton-under-Lyne , Greater Manchester 15 miles from Kathryn 's home in Bolton . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 5 | Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford died at the age of thirty in 1373 leaving , like Lancaster , two coheiresses , though both were under age when their father died . |
| 6 | Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication . |
| 7 | A flicker of admiration showed at the back of his dark eyes . |
| 8 | A tiny knot of tension throbbed at the back of her neck , running the length of her arms to her fingertips . |
| 9 | In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases . |
| 10 | The port of Ventspils lay at the end of a pipeline which brought Siberian oil for export , providing one-third of Soviet hard-currency income . |
| 11 | The Countess of Donnington stood at the window of the first-floor sitting room , intent on the street below . |
| 12 | AQIB JAVED of Pakistan picked at the seam of a cricket ball in full view of BBC cameras at The Oval . |
| 13 | When the first shaft of light showed at the end of the tunnel it was like waking from a nightmare . |
| 14 | EURO DISNEYLAND , a little bit of America in the flat farmlands of Seine-et-Marne to the east of Paris , opened an hour earlier than planned yesterday as thousands of visitors arrived at the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 15 | Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia : |
| 16 | A battery of guns stood at the edge of the village , some cavalry horses stood unsaddled in the street beyond , and a battalion of infantry was bivouacked in a field to the right of the guns , but otherwise the enemy was hidden , and so Sharpe stuck with his earlier estimate . |
| 17 | The overwhelming majority of Shetlanders employed at the airport are unskilled , semi-skilled ‘ blue collar ’ workers . |
| 18 | Sometimes Mr. Campbell can extend the licence for another nine months and about 40 to 50 percent of businesses started at the enterprise centre have gone on to greater success . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This trinity of faculties constituted the image of God and enabled in him a wisdom based on the knowledge of the reality of the love of God revealed at the Incarnation . |
| 21 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 22 | The Queen of Pleasures groped at the wall and switched on the light . |
| 23 | Most interviewers knew that a mass of inconsistencies lay at the heart of Labour 's campaign , but getting Mr Kinnock to trip over them was another matter . |
| 24 | The citizens of Riverbank stood at the water 's edge and stared in horror at the two on the opposite bank . |
| 25 | The stars , writers , musicians and leading lights of Oxford gathered at the headquarters of the British Academy of Film and Television . |
| 26 | A series of explosions tore at the stem of the plate-district where it was attached to the rest of the city . |
| 27 | A roll of corduroy lay at the end of the counter . |
| 28 | Of course those who regarded the study of mind only as a branch of metaphysics smiled at the ineptitude of the mere man of science . |
| 29 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 30 | In August Andy Warhol 's production of Pork opened at The Roundhouse in London . |