Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his report was submitted , it dwelt at length on the key figure of Monzer al-Kassar and his involvement with Palestinian terrorist groups , supporting Aviv 's assertion of al-Kassar 's connection with the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 2 | It was still empty and she wandered at will around the main hall , seeing only those involved in administration moving about . |
| 3 | At Camberwell Bobby Hunt formed the Bob Hunt 's Ragtime Band ( Bobby on trumpet , Oska on trombone , Monty Sunshine on clarinet , Terry Arthurs on piano and Denis ( ‘ Pip ’ ) Piper on a one-string bass made out of a wooden box and a broomhandle ) and which rehearsed at lunchtime in the pottery room , Minton helping some of its members to buy their instruments . |
| 4 | Felipe de Santis sat at the wheel , his eyes dark and irritated as he approached at speed over the rough ground . |
| 5 | People in swimsuits or shorts and tops strolled at liberty on the wide sands . |
| 6 | Kimberly Clark negotiated at length with the council and the Department of Trade and Industry before opting to set up in Humberside . |
| 7 | That this was a matter of interest and concern in Northumbria in the early 730s is clear from Bede 's letter to Ecgberht in 734 in which Bede expounded at length on the necessity for more bishops and a proper organization of the Northumbrian Church under an archbishop at York . |
| 8 | Charlie was a bustling , enthusiastic bundle of driving energy who played at inside-right for the Palace throughout the five seasons up to the end of fully competitive football in 1915 . |
| 9 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 10 | On 26 May 1918 , they sailed for France on the Leasowe Castle , torpedoed at midnight on the 26/27 , the survivors taken back to Alexandria . |
| 11 | Boris came in and started walking exercise after a scan , by Sue Dyson at Newmarket , revealed that his strained suspensory ligament ( which happened at Badminton in the spring ) had sufficiently healed . |
| 12 | It happened at night in the stable , and in the morning the Untouchable women came and dragged it outside and butchered it just in front of the house . |
| 13 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |
| 14 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 15 | I arrived at work on the Monday and was handed a cheque and my personal belongings at the desk in the foyer and was then escorted out by Security . |
| 16 | She refused to put up with her husband 's moods , and commented at length on the ways in which her skill as a household manager had been undervalued in the past . |
| 17 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 18 | For the next few years the horde ravaged at will through the mountains , desecrating shrines , despoiling tombs , and waylaying travellers , but Grom was unable to take any of the Dwarf holds or bring them to battle . |
| 19 | Russian tanks were in Hungary in 1956 and we prayed at school for the dying , who were not Russian . |
| 20 | Finally there was Mr Skipton 's wife ( mentioned above ) who talked at length about the strain of looking after her husband but is known to have refused most offers of help . |
| 21 | We talked at length about the new sails . |
| 22 | The failed short-list candidates are surrounded by increasing circles of other disappointed souls : to continue our horseracing imagery , the front-runners are followed by the minor placings , those who met the headhunter and talked at length about the opportunity , who were among the top ten , but not the top three or four . |
| 23 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher 's reticence in the Commons contrasted with her more favourable tone toward the ERM in an interview with the Financial Times , in which she hinted at entry before the next election . |
| 25 | I started at school in the 1920s , when we were taught how to knit the toe and heel of socks ( very handy in later life ) and I continued to knit later for my children , grandchildren and even a great-grandson until about four years ago when I developed knitter 's thumb ! |
| 26 | Er , I did n't have any idea er that I was going to start , obviously , er , but er , I first started at home in the backroom and had letters all over the floor . |
| 27 | J. McL died at sea of the plague . |
| 28 | The driver , who was in his forties , died at scene of the accident near Banbury . |
| 29 | At breakfast , I had been given freshly home-made bread , and I felt at peace with the world . |
| 30 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |