Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederick now attempted to have his approved pope , Victor , recognised by Louis VII of France , and both he and Rainald made speeches at the synod at St-Jean-de-Losne declaring that the Emperor had sole authority to decide a papal election . |
| 2 | It was after nine o'clock , however , by the time he got there , since his route was complicated , and involved calls at the mortuary of the General Hospital , at police headquarters , and a telephone call to the forensic laboratory . |
| 3 | Amy had screamed for him to stop and , scooping up the kittens , had thrown back her head and howled obscenities at the cruelty of human beings . |
| 4 | Then in July Iraq concentrated troops at the border . |
| 5 | He needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he 'd collected on his travelsand decided to build a gothic tower complete with mullioned arched and trefoil windows … crenellated battlements at the top and even a gargoyle to complete the effect . |
| 6 | According to the Life of Thomas Hardy ‘ they found lodgings at the house of an invalided captain of smacks and ketches ; and Hardy , suspending his house-hunting , settled down for the autumn and winter to finish his fifth novel , The Hand of Ethelberta ’ . |
| 7 | While parents visited stalls at the Easter fayre , children of Headley Nursery Club played on equipment at the Church Centre . |
| 8 | Both members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's European Right party , the MEPs shouted insults at the President of the Parliament , Enrique Baron , when he announced the measure barring the far-right party from leading delegations to Israel and Switzerland . |
| 9 | As Tibbles left the court , she shouted insults at the police . |
| 10 | The clinical approach to family planning in which medical staff advised upon and provided services at the hospital was replaced by an extension approach in which a vast array of extension agents and network of services in the countryside was set up , using many techniques of marketing and advertising adapted to the Indian context . |
| 11 | Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) in late August 1989 visited prisons at the request of the government , which claimed that organizations such as the permanent human rights commission ( CPDH ) and the support group for families of political prisoners were falsely estimating that there were between 6,000 and 7,000 inmates . |
| 12 | They had waved and shouted greetings at the Oldenburg party , who in turn had waved back . |
| 13 | SIR Tom Cowie , chairman of motor retailer and financier T Cowie , told shareholders at the company 's annual meeting that trading in its first quarter was ‘ comfortably ahead ’ of last year . |
| 14 | THE power base of local schools netball took another shift towards the North West when St Brigid 's , Omagh and their namesakes from Co Derry lifted titles at the Coca-Cola Plate Finals at Shankill Leisure Centre . |
| 15 | We hired halls at the London School of Economics , the Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden , and the church hall of All Saints in Notting Hill . |
| 16 | The mellow stone of the edifice — she hesitated to call it a house — was modelled into an elaborate copy of a French château , complete with round , steepled towers at the corners and an intricate garden laid out in the foreground … |
| 17 | He stuck his head out of one of the windows of the coach , and roared protests at the policemen who were desperately trying to cope with the traffic confusion . |
| 18 | ‘ The world recovery is not going according to script ’ Geoffrey Dicks , a senior research fellow at the London Business School , told delegates at the Chemical Industries Association ( CIA ) Business outlook conference in London last month . |
| 19 | Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall told delegates at the summit that the six members of the Warsaw Pact had agreed to dissolve the alliance by the beginning of 1992 . |
| 20 | Dubbed the " anti-ghetto " bill by Delebarre who introduced it , it suffered changes at the hands of opposition senators during its reading in the Senate on June 19-21 , which weakened clauses obliging low-income housing to be included in private building developments , and extending state powers of compulsory purchase of land . |
| 21 | He met new-born babies , and said prayers in the rooms of the dying , and consoled families at the cemetery , and struggled to communicate with teenagers who did not know how to read . |
| 22 | Rudolf Gutmann had been able to leave the running of the family business to his elder brother while he studied prints at the Albertina . |
| 23 | Overseas Aid Minister Baroness Chalker condemned conditions at the camps as ‘ beyond an acceptable level of humanity . ’ |
| 24 | The local bands used to play for the morning processions , in the afternoon they played selections at the sports and in the evening they would compete among themselves . |
| 25 | A BOOZY L-driver in a motorway crash told police at the scene : ‘ I really AM Nigel Mansell . ’ |
| 26 | For their third cinematic adventure of the decade ( unless one counts the showing of George V 's funeral ) , they booked tickets at the cinema in Great Malvern to see Walt Disney 's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves It turned out to be ‘ first rate … |
| 27 | Certainly he scored points at the expense of the Americans . |
| 28 | He told nurses at the Princess Anne , and the other baby was found to have Daniel 's tag . |
| 29 | It was explicitly cited as a rationale for the sentence in the 1991 case of Marcus Serjeant , an unemployed teenager who fired blanks at the Queen during the Trooping the Colour ceremony . |
| 30 | Anthony 's mother , Stella , 44 , threw bricks at the dog which was only dragged off the screaming youth after two neighbours attacked it with an iron bar . |