Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 2 | Banks that lent for property at the top of the market would be wrong to bail out near the bottom |
| 3 | PRINCE Andrew made a personal plea to save the job of the detective caught off guard at the pool where Fergie was snapped topless . |
| 4 | She took them in unsteady hands stained with grave marks , and peered with suspicion at the manufacturer 's name . |
| 5 | Blood gushed from a wound on her temple , running down into her eyes , but she saw Nahum Morey 's fatal collapse just before she crumpled into unconsciousness at the foot of the stairs . |
| 6 | On the mile-long drive up to the Abbey Anna exclaimed with admiration at the banks of rhododendrons in bloom at each side of the narrow road , and they were chatting with the familiarity of old friends as Merrill pulled into the car park . |
| 7 | He howled with dismay at the loss and was to curse the incident many more times over the months to come . |
| 8 | Special Forces men burst through the front door of The Anabaptist Reform Church , and gaped in horror at the unholy tableau spread out before them . |
| 9 | She stopped in horror at the sound of Lady Wardley 's high querulous voice demanding , ‘ Who could have left it there ? |
| 10 | Still to come : was Shakespeare in truth the seventeenth Earl of Oxford , and a Van Gogh made of money at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 11 | Outside the old Stasi headquarters in the Lichtenberg district of East Berlin demonstrators stormed and ransacked the building and were only persuaded to stop after Modrow and New Forum round table delegates broke off their meeting and appealed for calm at the scene itself . |
| 12 | As party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is used to being asked why … here he took his role literally … and in a keynote speech appealed for unity at the grass roots . |
| 13 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 14 | It seemed like fate at the time — as though I were specially meant to meet him . |
| 15 | goal of the week … its the one scored against oxford at the manor last saturday by Southend 's Stan Collymore … an unstoppable winner … |
| 16 | The disbelief Mortimer felt vied with rage at the thought that they had known this and had n't divulged it earlier . |
| 17 | Mahathir 's proposal was one of a number of plans for enhanced intra-ASEAN economic co-operation which came under discussion at the 24th annual meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers held in Malaysia in July 1991 [ see p. 38345-46 ] . |
| 18 | BRACKEN HOUSE , THE former home of the Financial Times , came under threat at the time ministers were considering the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule on listing ( see page 149 ) , and probably played a major part in securing the greater protection for post-war buildings of excellence that SAVE had sought for so long . |
| 19 | He acquiesced in the attempt of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] to seize the throne from Mary , and came under suspicion at the time of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v. ] , but within a few weeks was back at his duties . |
| 20 | FRANCE 'S new Socialist Prime Minister , M Pierre Beregovoy , came under fire at the weekend over his appointment of M Bernard Tapie , a business tycoon and football club owner , as Minister for Cities . |
| 21 | Officials came under fire at the meeting from disgruntled members who expressed concern about the club 's prospects . |
| 22 | The camp came into sight at the bottom of the road . |
| 23 | Both taxes came into operation at the time when the land and property boom turned into a slump . |
| 24 | These factions came into conflict at the , 1935 Labour Party Conference . |
| 25 | There are early mentions of the Portadown district in Latin documents about Papal taxation in 1296 and 1302 where the references are to Plebs Varren ( or , more familiarly , Ballyoran ) and the name ‘ Ballywarren al' Portadowne ’ is in the Ulster Inquisitions of 1609 but Portadown as a village only came into existence at the Plantation of Ulster . |
| 26 | The Ka came into existence at the moment of the individual 's conception and was born with him . |
| 27 | However , one complaint already made by the travel agents is the impossibility of existing on the lower commissions implied by holidays of £25 and the like that came into existence at the end of 1985 . |
| 28 | The Protocol has been signed by over 40 countries and came into force at the beginning of 1989 . |
| 29 | Public contracts — a new directive covering supply contracts over £140,000 came into force at the beginning of 1989 . |
| 30 | The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations [ COSHH ] which came into force at the beginning of October , not only relate to preventing risks from chemicals , but also to protection from biological hazards such as Legionella . |