Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE TIME RESIDENT in the Southend Historic Aircraft Museum , Fiet G.46–IV MM53211/BAPC 79 has , after many years for storage and neglect , surfaced at Duxford in the capable hands of the Aircraft Restoration Company ( ARCO ) , builders of Blenheims and other interesting aircraft . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In response to the call , an aproned figure peered at Harry from the kitchen , then bustled towards him , wiping her hands in a towel as she came . |
| 5 | It was still empty and she wandered at will around the main hall , seeing only those involved in administration moving about . |
| 6 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Óengus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Felipe de Santis sat at the wheel , his eyes dark and irritated as he approached at speed over the rough ground . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The earliest recorded work of these artists is in the shrine of These us , built or rebuilt by Cimon after he brought back the hero 's bones from Skyros in 473 ; and there is a detailed description by Pausanias of Polygnotos 's two murals in a lesche ( clubhouse ) dedicated at Delphi by the people of Knidos , perhaps after the liberation of the Asia Minor Greeks from Persia in Cimon 's campaigns , which culminated in the victory at the Eurymedon in 468 . |
| 12 | People in swimsuits or shorts and tops strolled at liberty on the wide sands . |
| 13 | Kimberly Clark negotiated at length with the council and the Department of Trade and Industry before opting to set up in Humberside . |
| 14 | Such a concept seemed at odds with the progressive and ameliorative spirit of the age . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The microphone and the evangelical enthusiasm seemed at odds with the orthodox robes and the white beard . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A friend of Bailey stationed at Hullavington at the time , Corporal Steven Paterson , is accused of helping cover up the crime . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A pretty little boy not above six boggled at Gabriel from the front row and cried out , ‘ Ma ! |
| 23 | Designed by a German scientific team led by Rudolf Gantenbrink , the robot climbed at 45° up the 65 metre long passageway to find a portcullis type slab at the other end with large copper handles . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There was nothing gradual , however , about what happened at Urabá on the night of March 4 this year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Like this Spanish C130 showed at Lyneham during the Gulf war , even with 3 engines , it can land safe and sound . |
| 28 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |