Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On the back of Wall Street 's overnight strength , the FT-SE 100 cash index rose 33 points at the outset and , with the futures index opening at a hefty premium , looked poised to turn in a record-setting performance . |
| 2 | Obtaining a licence for the Siemens open-hearth steel process , he built five furnaces at the Dalzell works , together with a rolling mill and finishing shop , the first melt of steel being made in 1881 . |
| 3 | The business world seems distinctly unalarmed at this prospect ; the stock exchange rose five points at the news . |
| 4 | I built two caves at the back , and placed a flat rock at each back corner to give a choice of spawning areas . |
| 5 | I phoned seven companies at the end of September and not one of them was selling at the price advertised . |
| 6 | The result of the publicity was that the following morning he received eight cards at the Middlesbrough station . |
| 7 | I believe we are already lost ’ , an analysis which the Empress kept to herself , but which soon proved to be all too correct , for in the early days of August the French armies suffered three defeats at the battles of Spicheren , Wissembourg and Froeschwiller . |
| 8 | On the basis of a synopsis of Company Man , an account of ‘ the evolution of the social phenomenon of the 20th century ’ , Michael Sissons received three bids at the same level , from HarperCollins , Heinemann and Random House . |
| 9 | I booked two rooms at the Hotel Colombi from Frankfurt Airport . |
| 10 | She told 1,000 representatives at the association 's 25th annual congress in Harrogate , North Yorkshire , that the nursing shortage was being experienced by the rest of the Western world with the subsequent drain of qualified theatre nurses going to the US , Australia and anywhere else offering a better deal . |
| 11 | Sergeant Bird followed him into the parkland at a leisurely pace , then watched from behind a tree as the fugitive made three attempts at the lowest portion of the wall . |
| 12 | Her grandmother said nothing , but nodded three times at the little girl . |
| 13 | Birlik , which was originally known as the Democratic Party of Uzbekistan , claimed 54,000 members at the end of last year . |
| 14 | He held his automatic out sideways , away from his body so that they could not aim in on its flash , and fired two shots at the left-hand headlight of the Dodge . |
| 15 | BrdU showed two peaks at the 18th and the 24th percentile . |
| 16 | It was important to have transport , mobility , He reserved two rooms at the luxurious hotel which had a large reception hall and modern curving staircases leading to the first floor . |
| 17 | FIFTEEN females averaged 720 guineas at the Welsh Black Cattle Society 's show and sale at Llandovery , Dyfed . |
| 18 | Esther paid her first visit to Italy , where she spent three months at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia , learned some Italian , drank a great deal of wine , took up with a middle-aged American art historian and began to look at paintings . |
| 19 | After more exposure in the West End , he spent three years at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , playing 12 large Shakespeare roles with distinction . |
| 20 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 21 | An explosion and fire killed 265 mineworkers at the Incirharmani coal-mine at Kozlu on the Black Sea coast ( 180 km north-west of Ankara ) on March 3 . |
| 22 | Against South Tyneside Andrew Kirtland , Eddie Taylor , Peter Welburn and skip Eric Ramsdale collected five shots at the second end and went on to dominate C Brider , W Robertshaw , G Loughlin and K Donkin to win in style by 31–12 collecting 13 shots over the last five ends . |
| 23 | This reinforced the government 's decision of October 1988 to trim five million pounds from the UK fusion budget ; this did not affect JET but threatened 150 jobs at the adjacent Culham Laboratory . |
| 24 | It spent four weeks at the top of Off the Record 's local artists chart last summer and after a recent re-release , sales topped 1000 . |
| 25 | I then left Hamptons and spent two months at the Berlitz School of Language in London . ’ |
| 26 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 27 | Phil and Margaret developed a slide presentation on business plans and spent two days at the St Robert of Newminster Secondary School helping students make their own plans . |
| 28 | Between 1870–71 , the Ironworks produced 36 spans at the rate of three a month each of 107ft to make a total length of 3,852ft for the Kistna Viaduct . |
| 29 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 30 | Uninvited , she positioned two fingers at the entrance of his arsehole , and crudely thrust into him . |