Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime Minister John Major and Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen met for talks at 10 Downing Street today on next week 's EC summit in Copenhagen . |
| 2 | I never cared for results never cared for results at all . |
| 3 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 4 | A state marketing system gives derisory prices for commodities produced by peasants and later exported to earn foreign exchange spent by the bureaucratic bourgeoisie and other privileged classes , or consumed as foodstuffs at cheap prices . |
| 5 | Remember what you were saying on Sunday evening — about misogyny , and the kind of attitudes instilled in boys at public schools ? |
| 6 | In such ways , Hitler set the vicious tone for discrimination and persecution , providing the touchstone and legitimation for initiatives which largely came from others at various levels of the Party , the State bureaucracy , and not least the SS-SD-Gestapo complex , where the ‘ Jewish Question ’ had a key functional role . |
| 7 | In desperation Mr Gresty turned to soldiers at nearby Catterick Garrison who agreed to recover the truck stuck in the River Skerne , on the outskirts of Darlington . |
| 8 | The school day always began with prayers at nine o'clock , followed by a scripture lesson , and there was invariably arithmetic in some form or another until dinnertime . |
| 9 | Distribution had the highest price to earnings valuation of 20.1 followed by Components at 19.2 , Application Hardware at 18.8 and Peripherals at 7.3 . |
| 10 | In this context it was the externality of British Afro-Caribbeans and Asians which was highlighted rather the racist institutions and processes which worked against blacks at all levels of society . |
| 11 | Every day I looked for jobs at other window companies , the job centre and in local papers . |
| 12 | Bucephalus eventually died of wounds at thirty years of age , in 326 BC , following Alexander 's war with the Indian king , Porus . |
| 13 | The bloodiest massacres were on Aug. 3 , when 140 reportedly died in attacks at two mosques in Kattankudy ; on Aug. 6 , when 58 bodies were recovered after two incidents ; and on Aug. 11-12 , when 100-170 were reported killed at Eravur in the Batticaloa region . |
| 14 | Loganberries and raspberries grew on wires at both sides of the garden which had a centre bed with paths around it and beds running next to the fences . |
| 15 | A FRANTIC pre-match ticket scramble was sparked today in Co Derry as thousands of anxious Gaelic football fans battled for places at next weekend 's All-Ireland showdown at Croke Park . |
| 16 | Back in the scullery to the left of the lavatory door , coal was stored beneath a window ; a convenient spot as it had walls on three sides , with loose boards which fitted into slots at either end forming the front . |
| 17 | The reason people thought she was naked all through the film was because she displayed a different attitude to sex from the one that prevailed in films at that time . |
| 18 | This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure . |
| 19 | Armed men stood in groups at many of the street corners . |
| 20 | Potted shrimps in attractive little ramekins , and prettily adorned with watercress , stood on plates at each place . |
| 21 | Pine logs crackled and snapped in the small fireplace and warming dishes stood on stands at either end of the great writing desk . |
| 22 | retired at the end of October after a 26-year career with the Company which started in the accounts department at Key Street in the days when staff sat on stools at high , sloping desks . |