Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] [vb past] at the " in BNC.

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1 Pigs too were taken to sanctuaries to recover , as the RSPCA worked at the farms for days on end , work which eventually cost the RSPCA £15,000 .
2 The Fish-Boy knocked at the door , and a second later a large plate came flying out of an open window .
3 They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state .
4 The Havards arrived at The Kilns , Maureen played tennis with them , swam with them and provided them with the sandwiches and cakes which she and her mother had been preparing all day .
5 The Archon stared at the general .
6 The Feldwebel stood at the entrance to the corridor turning away people who wanted to come in .
7 In a detailed paper on the issues involved in opening up disciplinary hearings , the PCD asked at the December Council meeting for guidance before moving forward .
8 It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree .
9 As the Shah arrived at the White House to be officially welcomed by President Carter , the two groups shouted abuse at each other just beyond police railings .
10 It was quite a shock to learn that the Elsie found at the bottom of Loch Craig was not a twenty-six-year-old woman but a woman in her late fifties or early sixties .
11 Up the Empire ! ’ to a group of communist students from the UK gathered at the bar of his hotel , promises to do something about the ‘ blooming awful ’ state of Soviet plumbing and ends up making a deal with Stalin with the insouciance of George Formby addressing himself to Hitler .
12 In fact , as the THES noted at the time , the dispute leading to this crisis had been simmering in relative privacy for some time .
13 The UFF vowed at the start of the year to step up attacks and warned : You ai n't seen nothing yet . ’
14 In late July 1989 Saudi Arabia and the United States opened secret talks to extend the life of a floating military base in the Gulf established at the height of the Iran-Iraq war .
15 Less than half a century ago the Midland stood at the pinnacle of the financial system , the largest bank in the world .
16 Which is more than can be said of the successors of the first Labour government , elected just when the Elmhirsts arrived at the bankrupt farms and derelict buildings of Dartington .
17 Although the speculations of a few Italian statesmen about the African shores of the Mediterranean hinted at the patterns of future international rivalry , the powers for the most part displayed in 1880 an almost complete preoccupation with European interests and lack of sensitivity about the rest of the world .
18 Several papers report a new invention from the USA aimed at the angling market which is supposed to cause fish to go into a feeding frenzy .
19 The hon. Gentleman is right , too , to tell the House of the warning that the Chief Constable of the RUC gave at the end of last week about the potential level of terrorist violence in the run-up to Christmas .
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