Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountfield , prising himself away momentarily from the Tipton Terror , met the ball at the far post to score the kind of goal that was his trademark at Everton . |
| 2 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
| 3 | Before she met the Minister at a party , through her Private Eye journalist friend Paul Halloran , the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate was leading an uncertain lifestyle bouncing from one boyfriend to the next and one downmarket job to another . |
| 4 | Sir Geoffrey met the Commissioner at a Lord Mayor 's Banquet , and when he became worried he naturally went to him . |
| 5 | CHRISTINE Elliott enjoyed every minute working for her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award — and when she met the Duke at the presentation ceremony she told him so . |
| 6 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 7 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
| 8 | They took a bus to Regent Street and posted the letter at the Heddon Street post office . |
| 9 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 10 | Drago unlocked the door at the top of the stairs , and led the way into a high narrow storeroom . |
| 11 | More brilliance still would be given to the tune if the trumpets doubled the trombone at the octave above . |
| 12 | In a pique against Harlequins last Saturday he flung the ball at the opposition tighthead prop and was lucky not to be sent off . |
| 13 | I flung the accusation at the smiling Agrippa . |
| 14 | He flung the contract at the feet of the American . |
| 15 | saw Bob and , I mean I passed the pub at a quarter past twelve . |
| 16 | In 1929 he reached the pinnacle of educational success when he passed the agregation at the Ecole Normale Superieure in the company of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . |
| 17 | He did n't see anyone down there , but he insists that as he passed the alcove at the end of the gallery , he had the strong impression that someone was sitting in there , watching him . ’ |
| 18 | Erm , that the , that we should support the principle , we agreed the principle at the last meeting , in support of the business link and satellite in Oswestry , that we should sup support the principle of supporting a business link satellite in Craven Arms , and that we should appoint a representative to the business links board . |
| 19 | Ambassadors from the 16 alliance nations agreed the move at a meeting in Brussels . |
| 20 | John Duggan , who was re-elected as chairman of the Castlewellan Hospital Support Group , made the plea at the group 's annual meeting . |
| 21 | It was a sound that made the hair at the back of Connelly 's neck rise . |
| 22 | The British Safety Council made the presentation at a glittering banquet honouring the stars of the safety scene . |
| 23 | Elie Wiesel , who acts as America 's tireless conscience on the subject of the slaughtered Jews , himself made the parallel at the memorial 's dedication . |
| 24 | It made the gathering at the Roundhouse that July , ‘ The Dialectics of Liberation ’ , a symposium which in other years , might have attracted a handful of people , an often packed and vital event . |
| 25 | I think we made the move at the right time . |
| 26 | Robert McLaren , 30 , made the claim at the High Court sitting at Perth when his brother was accused of endangering his life and attempting to murder him . |
| 27 | there was only one rugby scoreline that made the news at the weekend … which is fair enough … but tonight there 's only one that matters to us and that 's Gloucester 19 Sale 16 |
| 28 | When the wind was south-westerly , and it usually was , they made the hearth at the north end of the house so that the smoke could filter out through the stones . |
| 29 | IBM made the announcement at the Semiconductor Industry Association meeting in San Jose , where it said that its Technology Products unit would have to start shuttering plants if it did n't succeed in its new initiative of selling chips to other vendors and offering them on the merchant market . |
| 30 | The 17-year-old alleged victim made the complaint at a police station in Brixton , South London , on Saturday . |