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

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1 They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree .
2 They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree .
3 This was partly accidental : he became archbishop at a time when the expansive energies of the Norman conquerors were beginning to make an impression in Scotland , in Wales , and — very tentatively — in Ireland .
4 And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute .
5 Mrs Hollidaye met Dot at the train with the Ford drawn right up to the station exit .
6 He gained his first knowledge of practical politics as a member of the London county council , and entered Parliament at a by-election in Lewisham West in 1938 , retaining the seat till the Conservative débâcle of 1945 .
7 For the SAC , music officer Helen Jamieson reported delight at the wealth and variety of excellent proposals , and at the evident enthusiasm for new Scottish music .
8 Mine host insisted upon introducing him to everyone , which helped identification at the cost of making him somewhat more conspicuous than he would have liked .
9 Lady Clinton turned pale and would have fainted in the saddle if Benjamin had not caught her , whilst Sir Robert shouted abuse at the outriders , telling them to move on .
10 ’ The provision of the men who were eventually to take over responsibility for the management of an enterprise was regarded as a matter of making sure that enough young men entered business at the foot of the ladder , ’ wrote Falk of the old days .
11 She would never tire of that view , never get used to hills that changed colour at the whim of the sun , or the trees and flowers and a sky free of rooftops and chimney stacks .
12 If you tell me of Sarah 's or Rachel 's or Rebecca 's nursing their children I can answer that the one drew water at a well for her father 's flocks , another baked cakes on a hearth , and another dressed savoury meat for her husband .
13 Birkenhead-born Swain , who tasted life at the top as a player with Chelsea , Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa , said : ‘ Relegation is a terrible feeling for everyone involved and it wo n't go away until the first game of the season .
14 I referred sir at the beginning to er the limited experience I 've had in Nottinghamshire where erm a criteria based policy was put into a structure plan erm for er in that case for a prestige business development I think is what they call it , prestige business park , that was a criteria based policy as a way of containing , stopping this strategic issue becoming a Trojan horse for lots of other things .
15 In the early 1840's it was computed that some 240 or so adult male workers found employment at the mines .
16 Jeremy 's natural joy in the festivities found fulfilment at the Youngs ' house , where a children 's party and innumerable presents helped to put his father 's tragedy into the background .
17 To set against that , however , Ford entered office at a moment when confidence in political leaders had collapsed catastrophically and when the anti-authority tradition embedded in the American political culture had resurfaced .
18 Garage blaze : Most of a garage was damaged after a car caught fire at a house in Durham Road , Stockton .
19 A wooden beam in a chimney caught fire at a house in Darlington Road , Northallerton .
20 He studied agriculture in England , but entered politics at the age of 21 and won a seat in the Sind provincial assembly .
21 The youth that winked defiance at the moon .
22 It was all very different from his life of the past year , when Sunday began at about noon in a room that smelled of bed , crawled sluggishly through an afternoon of too many newspapers , and , in final desperation , sought escape at a film or some theatre club .
23 Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US .
24 Back at the Noones ' , I enjoyed a snack in the front room , in the company of the good-looking teenage Noones , curly-headed Martin ( or ‘ Murt ’ ) and his pink-cheeked sister , a wholesome girl who played guitar at the Folk Mass .
25 It also reduced friction at the point of contact .
26 Thus both Castile and Genoa became suppliers of galleys which often fought on the French side , notably in 1416 when the Genoese provided part of the fleet which suffered defeat at the hands of the English at the battle of the Seine , off Harfleur .
27 Mackay is a Scot who came south at the request of Mrs Thatcher following the resignation of Lord Havers due to ill health in 1987 .
28 ‘ I booked lunch at the château and it is time we were off . ’
29 He studied law at the Moscow State University , and went on to become a full Communist Party member two years later , in nineteen fifty two .
30 He then studied chemistry at the City and Guilds of London Institute under F. S. Kipping [ q.v. ] , who became his friend .
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