Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It also focussed attention at each level on the measures of performance required for effective monitoring and control , and the information dependencies of all subsystems . |
| 3 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 4 | At Indianapolis , the neo-Romanesque station of 1888 contained a vast barrel-vaulted concourse with galleries , rose windows at each end , and elaborate tile-work . |
| 5 | Among the structures which received attention at that meeting but which failed to be included in the final Charter was the creation of a pan-European Assembly . |
| 6 | The event which affected Britain at this time was the fall from power of Magnentius . |
| 7 | Four other men played poker at another table , swarthy , fierce-looking gypsies . |
| 8 | She suffered smallpox at some point in the 1740s . |
| 9 | ‘ Ivy writes ’ , I told Elizabeth at this time , |
| 10 | Under a sky shrouded by deep snow clouds , some boys threw snowballs at each other , shrieking with laughter as they hit their target . |
| 11 | He did not explain how this latter figure squared with McAteer 's figure of two thousand ; Nationalists and Unionists often threw figures at each other in this way but it was not always clear exactly what they meant . |
| 12 | Sadly , though , the series in Pakistan was marred by umpiring controversy , and a whole day in the Faisalabad Test was lost as Shakoor Rana and Mike Gatting allegedly threw insults at each other after the England captain was warned for incommoding the batsman . |
| 13 | In the semi final he was master of the pressure game , beating Liverpool 's Craig Dobbin 3–0 who was a little out of hid depth at this level . |
| 14 | But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall . |
| 15 | For her part , the Minister , Shirley Williams , expressed satisfaction at this move towards open consultation on the part of the DES . |
| 16 | He found a mirror , stuck candles at either side of it and sat , naked , before it , the sweat drying on him as the warm undulation of night air moved into the room . |
| 17 | The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ . |
| 18 | Among others who lost office at this time were two of the sheriffs inherited from Edward IV , who were replaced on 13 May . |
| 19 | Among others who lost office at this time were two of the sheriffs inherited from Edward IV , who were replaced on 13 May . |
| 20 | This finding suggests that primary gastric MALT lymphoma forms a continuum with well delineated entities at either end , which have a graded sequence of an increasing amount of large cells . |
| 21 | I felt fear at this moment but it passed and I was calmed in thought when the sensation passed . |
| 22 | Would it be possible for the Civil Service college to illustrate , by means of that example , what should not happen , and to demonstrate the amount of abuse that took place at that point in our history ? |
| 23 | We to say was aware of the practice in May of nineteen ninety two but I am not clear er as to what took place at that stage because we have n't as yet looked into that . |
| 24 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 25 | ( Unfortunately , there is no hint of the conversations that took place at this time between Lloyd George and Mr Thomas as they took their daily morning walk ‘ across the park ’ from the underground station at Westminster . ) |
| 26 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 27 | It is quite likely therefore that a meeting of Lambarde and Shakespeare took place at this time , although it was n't until 1594 that Shakespeare made his mark , for it was at Christmas of that year that he was Summoned to appear at Court . |
| 28 | Gregory and others saw in certain happenings which took place at this time the workings of divine providence : on one occasion the boat carrying one of his opponents sank ; on another a supporter was miraculously freed from prison ; and throughout his trial the princess Rigunth fasted on his behalf . |
| 29 | Tagliacozzo , however , observed the entire search and questioned users at each step . |
| 30 | In the case of Geoffrey de Lusignan at least , this enforced vow was speedily fulfilled , since he reached Outremer at some date during the summer of 1188 . |