Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill . |
| 2 | ‘ Time is a luxury that Bell Resources may well not have , ’ he told shareholders at the annual meeting in Perth . |
| 3 | In 1963 ‘ there were some very unpleasant moments ’ , he told journalists at the Soviet Culture Foundation . |
| 4 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 5 | The profession should stop being so defensive , he told participants at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference in St Andrews last month . |
| 6 | The joint between the end of the dock and the standing work of the bay end is preferably a direct butt joint between suitable packed or faced surfaces at the leading following and bottom sides of the dock which close simultaneously by a direct butting , as distinguished from a sliding , motion against corresponding surfaces on the standing work . |
| 7 | Britain has not yet received any formal demand for the extradition of the demonstrators who threw bricks at the Iranian embassy in London and smashed windows . |
| 8 | A recent architectural survey revealed problems at the 60-year-old Salutation Church in Salutation Road . |
| 9 | HCIMA expressed doubts at the consultative stage about the lack of hotel and catering GNVQs , but little further information is yet available . |
| 10 | My reporting for the Times-Herald under the avuncular guidance of Fred Workman ran the whole spectrum of events , incidents and activities : I spent days at the annual Wild West Rodeo and Stampede absorbing as much of the cowboy lingo as possible ; I acted as Master of Ceremonies for a fox trot competition sponsored by Cal Temple and Trudie , his business-like wife ; I interviewed all visiting celebrities including MacKenzie King , the Prime Minister , and R.B. Bennett , the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa ; I interviewed Jimmy Gardiner as Minister of Agriculture , after he gave up his post as Premier of Saskatchewan ; I covered celebrity concerts and the annual Chatauqua programmes , among many other things . |
| 11 | In Edna O'Brien 's A Pagan Place , which followed Veterans at the Royal Court in 1972 , Eyre drew from a 16-year-old school girl called Veronica Quilligan , who had never acted before , a performance of exquisite subtlety and emotional truth . |
| 12 | Qatar instituted proceedings at the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in The Hague against Bahrain on July 8 , claiming sovereignty over the Hawar islands and the shoals of Fasht al Dibal and Qitat Jaradah , and a delimitation of the maritime boundary . |
| 13 | GEORGE Harrison wowed fans at the Royal Albert Hall by turning up unannounced to play with close friend Gary Moore , the blues guitarist . |
| 14 | In other words the candidates most likely to be nominated if they so wish will be those who were nominated and became TDs at the previous general election . |
| 15 | When Tilden was fifteen , he was apprenticed for five years to Alfred Allchin , a London pharmacist , and attended lectures at the Royal College of Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Society . |
| 16 | Trundle through the system and you 'll come across Sherlock Holmes ' familiar profile at Baker Street , and that of Queen Victoria at Victoria station ; old architectural sketches at Paddington , echoing the West Country connection with the engineering Isambard Brunel ; the escalator design at Oxford Circus , in the heart of department store territory ; and crossed pistols at the odd duelling spot of Finsbury Park , to name but a handful . |
| 17 | In particular , though I noted that the farmers distinguished between different scientific sources , they credited scientists at the local Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Merlewood with more openness about the scientific uncertainties . |
| 18 | Private Lee Clegg ( 22 ) told Belfast Crown Court how he fired three aimed shots at the front windscreen of the car which he believed had struck his colleague , Private Barry Aindow . |
| 19 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 20 | ‘ The boy waited ages at the open front door after he had delivered it , ’ he said , ‘ but eventually he just rode away . ’ |
| 21 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 22 | We had questions at the very beginning of this meeting which seems an awful long time ago now er asking for youth provision in other areas of the county . |
| 23 | ‘ Melanie always had hysterics at the mere mention of motherhood . |
| 24 | Philip Major rescued Ports at the other end with a neat challenge on Macartney — but minutes later Cunningham put the visitors ahead . |