Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several R.A.F. planes crashed at locations throughout the county but it was three years until the next disaster brought death and destruction to a quiet residential street in Prestwick . |
| 2 | Now Dr A. Noyan and colleagues from Hacettepe University in Ankara have discovered that the lymph nodes ( small swellings ) found at intervals along the lymph vessels act as tiny hearts , pumping lymph up from the extremities of the body towards the neck , where it enters the venous circulation ( Journal of Muscle Research and Ceil Motility , vol 4 , p 103 ) . |
| 3 | The most dramatic outward sign of this change , according to Le Roy Ladurie , was a series of peasant rebellions which occurred at intervals throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 4 | Such a concept seemed at odds with the progressive and ameliorative spirit of the age . |
| 5 | The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture . |
| 6 | The microphone and the evangelical enthusiasm seemed at odds with the orthodox robes and the white beard . |
| 7 | As guard dogs barked at rabbits in the barbed-wire-ringed grounds , Bawdsey Manor last week looked uncommonly like a place with secrets still to harbour . |
| 8 | He danced in moonlit dells , shivered in thickets , pranced at the edge of the wood , grinned at travellers from the green of the bush . |
| 9 | Twenty horses he kept at stables on the Lartington Hall estate were taken away overnight . |
| 10 | Of the major studies of the research thesis , Boyer looked at theses in the fields of botany , chemical engineering , chemistry and psychology , from three US universities during the period 1963 to 1967 . |
| 11 | Clusters of actions so she looked at things like the use of the hands the use of the feet the use of the eyes erm and what she called the centre line . |
| 12 | Interviews also took place with parents in 10 of the 25 cases selected for follow-up.The study looked at cases during the first six months after the initial case conference . |
| 13 | In 1970 , Pamela Allerston , for example , looked at villages in the Vale of Pickering and was able to show that some with very regular plans had come into existence in the early Middle Ages and replaced an earlier arrangement of scattered hamlets . |
| 14 | In Chapter 3 , we looked at explanations for the differences in male and female criminality . |
| 15 | My recollection , and I 'm speaking from memory , and I could be wrong , but I think that the last time I looked at lists of the various companies in Telford , where I 'm obviously more concerned , not , well , that 's not to mean I 'm not concerned elsewhere , but I 'm more familiar with respect to them , my recollection is that the more American than anything else on that site . |
| 16 | In this respect , the European tradition appeared at odds with the American one . |
| 17 | Concealed lighting made it seem so naturalistic that Alexandra almost expected to smell the salt and hear the cry of the seagulls which dipped and swooped at intervals around the walls . |
| 18 | Both Dalton and Alexander , the First Lord of the Admiralty , argued at meetings of the committee that Germany should be deprived of war-making industries , though not to the extent of the ‘ pastoralisation ’ proposed by Henry Morgenthau , the US Secretary of the Treasury , and accepted for a time by Churchill and Roosevelt at their meeting at Quebec in September 1944 . |
| 19 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |
| 20 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 21 | Basin development associated with north-south extension was initiated with Permo-Triassic rifting and continued at intervals through the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous . |
| 22 | Above his eyes a thick , prickly hedgerow jutted at right-angles to the bone . |
| 23 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
| 24 | Three groups of 10-to-11 year olds sat at tables round the room , heads bent over balsawood boats , a paper merry-go-round , and magnetised bits of metal . |
| 25 | Those of us lucky enough to be in the choir were sitting on benches in the corridor beside the hall , an open corridor where we sat at right-angles to the rest of the school . |
| 26 | The Treasury and the Ministry of Aviation , now run by Julian Amery , Macmillan 's son-in-law , remained at loggerheads as the issue moved to full Cabinet on Guy Fawkes Day 1962 . |
| 27 | Regarding Afghanistan ( on which there had been speculation that an agreement on a ceasefire was imminent , in view of recent political developments in the country and an unexpected visit by President Najibullah to Moscow in the week preceding the Irkutsk talks ) , both sides agreed on the need for elections , but remained at odds over the transition process . |