Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun pl] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King 's army was dispatched and met the rebels at a site now known as ‘ Bloody Oaks ’ , about five miles north-west of the town near Empingham . |
| 2 | An accountant , in order to stand any chance of a career in corporate finance , must have a good academic record ( 2.1 or better ) at a recognised university ( red brick or Oxbridge ) , must have trained with one of the top accountancy firms , and passed the exams at the first attempt . |
| 3 | For West Indies , two bowlers , Garner and Marshall , shared the honours at the top of the averages with 27 wickets each , Garner 's being slightly the less expensive at just 16 apiece . |
| 4 | The Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor , Anthony Farquhar made the remarks at the funeral of father of six , Michael Edwards , murdered by the UFF early on Friday . |
| 5 | Minton 's sharpest critic was David Sylvester who , having admired his Painter and Model at the Contemporary Art Society exhibition earlier that year , damned the portraits at the Lefevre for their lack of reality ; Minton , he argued , had not come to grips with appearances because he had failed to detach his faculties of observation from his interest in the sitters ' personalities . |
| 6 | No doubt the Substitute read the newspapers at the same breakneck speed as he did everything else . |
| 7 | Wolf 's treatise on Homer laid the foundations at the end of the eighteenth century and a celebrated edition of Lucretius by Karl Lachmann represents the completion of the edifice in 1850 . |
| 8 | Boomer chose to pursue his career in France and he and his brother , Percy , became the professionals at the fashionable St Cloud club , just outside Paris . |
| 9 | In slow , careful English , she asked the gentlemen at the first table , ‘ You are ready to order ? ’ |
| 10 | Richard Mavro-Michaelis of Lucas Aerospace announced the plans at a gathering of teachers at Farnborough . |
| 11 | I believe I got the Severums at the end of last year . |
| 12 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 13 | The Princess of Wales led the mourners at the service , which her father had asked should not be too sad or mournful . |
| 14 | Each VHW accompanied a mother on her journey through the health centre in order to feel how the mother experienced the activities at the centre . |
| 15 | He also entertained the monks at the ‘ Holy Cross ’ monastery by playing violin concertos to them , including one of his own , and improvising on the organ . |
| 16 | Children who were at least 6 months old entered the trials at the first dosing round or at a subsequent round and left at the last dosing round , or when they moved out of the study area , died , or were withdrawn from the trial . |
| 17 | She was unusually silent , but the group of scientists at the tables could hear her muttering to herself as she punished the books at the end of one of the bays . |
| 18 | Carolyn found the days at the Refuge terrible . |
| 19 | He encountered the Visigoths at the campus Vogladensis , usually identified as Vouillé , but more probably Voulon , near Poitiers . |
| 20 | The Governor-General , the Earl of Clarendon , went to Rustenburg and reviewed the Scouts at a garden party . |
| 21 | On this day : the arrest of the Templars for heresy took place in Paris , on the orders of Philip IV , 1307 ; Benedict Arnold was defeated at Lake Champlain , 1776 ; President George Washington laid the foundation stone of the White House , Washington 1792 ; British forces defeated the Americans at the Battle of Queenston Heights , 1812 ; Greenwich was adopted as the universal meridian at the Washington Conference , 1884 ; 41 people were killed during a German air-raid on London , 1915 ; Ankara became the new capital of Turkey , 1923 ; Italy declared war on Germany , 1943 ; the Allies liberated Athens , 1944 ; the first London production of the musical show The Pajama Game was presented , 1955 . |
| 22 | We did a day walk up the Catlin 's river valley ; I dropped the others at the bottom , drove round via forest roads to the top with bike on board , left the car at the top and cycled back . |
| 23 | When we had the circus the lions were put behind the screen , but we were showing an MGM picture and every time the lion at the beginning roared the lions at the back would answer him . |
| 24 | Because , well I told the police at the time that er I 've misplaced it and er my is . |
| 25 | Because , well I told the police at the time that er I 've misplaced it and er |
| 26 | I told the police at the time that he could not have done what they said he had . ’ |
| 27 | He told the troops at a ceremony at Chester Castle : ‘ Wear your medals with pride . ’ |
| 28 | Though Wooderson failed to beat the two healthy Swedes Gundar Hagg and Arne Andersson before 54,000 people , his effort lifted the spirits at a time when , without the tension of war , there was still the dreariness of rationing and shortage . |
| 29 | You took the collar , sold the jewels from it and buried the remains at the foot of a scaffold . ’ |
| 30 | But he 's in — ’ Tina broke off as she suddenly noticed the figures at the Monument . |