Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] at the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They took a bus to Regent Street and posted the letter at the Heddon Street post office . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Drago unlocked the door at the top of the stairs , and led the way into a high narrow storeroom . |
| 8 | More brilliance still would be given to the tune if the trumpets doubled the trombone at the octave above . |
| 9 | In a pique against Harlequins last Saturday he flung the ball at the opposition tighthead prop and was lucky not to be sent off . |
| 10 | I flung the accusation at the smiling Agrippa . |
| 11 | He flung the contract at the feet of the American . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | John Duggan , who was re-elected as chairman of the Castlewellan Hospital Support Group , made the plea at the group 's annual meeting . |
| 16 | It was a sound that made the hair at the back of Connelly 's neck rise . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I think we made the move at the right time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Protein , index and pedigree ruled the day at the fifth Hayleys Invitational Sale in Essex last week , with breeders failing to dig as deeply into their pockets as in previous years . |
| 25 | The first mayor was Hugh Ripley , a merchant who owned the house at the corner of the market square which is now the tourist information centre . |
| 26 | Brother Brian O'Donnell , prior general of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God , laid the stone at the Viewley Centre , Hemlington , Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | Middlesbrough council is unhappy with work done by the contractors who laid the pitch at the Southlands Centre . |
| 28 | Mr Yitzhak Shamir , Prime Minister , who announced the compromise at the start of a delayed Cabinet meeting , said later it was made ‘ in the shadow of ’ the forthcoming general election . |
| 29 | But the jury ; the fans announced the sentence at the end . |
| 30 | . Er and I got the job at the Centre in August . |