Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had left the University of California , Santa Barbara , he had taught literature at a school in Battle Creek , Michigan . |
| 2 | There was a small , partly hidden gully at the base of the cliff and there , grazing on the scurvy grass , was yet another bear . |
| 3 | And I accept there are a number here of items , I mean there 's er another one that Peter mentions which was the er large thorn plants to discourage the children from climbing the newly erected fence at the nature reserve . |
| 4 | We submitted a carefully considered response at the end of June , since when there has been a deafening silence . |
| 5 | In the great days of Suleiman the Magnificent the sultan 's armies reached the gates of Vienna in 1529 , having already subdued Hungary at the battle of Mohács three years earlier . |
| 6 | My business statement every week is based on the position as I see it at the time and we have organised matters at the time . |
| 7 | He has won £10,000 at the bookies after betting £200 , at odds of 50–1 , on a rise in the number of Tory seats in Scotland . |
| 8 | Over 40 years ' experience of the nuclear industry has installed AEA at the forefront of decommissioning technology in the UK and worldwide . |
| 9 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 10 | These are tensioned in the ‘ down ’ position by an elastic or bungee , one end of which is hooked on the bowsprit , and the other linked to a trip line which runs through the two sails to the slotted tube at the rear , where it is retained by the release pin . |
| 11 | Brazilian environmentalists have expresssed outrage at the ruling , which has also been strongly criticised by the prosecution lawyer . |
| 12 | The deceased had committed suicide at a remand centre . |
| 13 | I personally have always liked the one-hundred-per-cent aspect of life ; I have always enjoyed life at the extremes . |
| 14 | Pemberton has added pace at the back , Wallace and Deane are hitting form ( as I predicted they would ) . |
| 15 | The important British companies , from Korda 's London Films to Goldcrest , have attracted capital at a point where they seemed to understand the economic need to balance Hollywood extravagance with a strong dose of parsimony , but all have ended up committing suicide by spending huge sums of money on attempts to emulate Hollywood . |
| 16 | However , once they have destroyed six Part-Gargoyles , then assume that the adventurers have managed to reach the warded door at the end ( location 14 ) . |
| 17 | Candy Morris has amazed doctors at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford.Just two weeks ago her foot was almost severed when she fell into this shredding machine at her own paper baling business . |
| 18 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |
| 19 | If all this sounds like over-egged exhibitionism at the expense of the music , then it probably is , but only because songs like ‘ Crackerjack ’ and the next single ‘ Take It ’ — with its Rude Boy quotes and even a wah-wah guitar solo are belters . |
| 20 | There was reported controversy at a meeting of the SI council on Nov. 23-24 in Geneva , Switzerland , over proposals , principally from the West German and Austrian socialist parties , that the SI establish formal links with ruling " ex-communist parties " in Eastern Europe , especially with the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP — which had changed its name from the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) in October — see p. 36960 ) . |
| 21 | Roy had sat Janine at the kitchen table and was standing beside her . |
| 22 | ’ Perhaps it was the estrangement of Washington perhaps that he had n't expected Agnes at the Smithsonian but it had been a surprising thrill to see the familiar smile in the crowd . |
| 23 | The £10,000 scheme has lifted spirits at the school which is close to imported coal mountains at Gladstone Dock . |
| 24 | A chip pan had caught fire at a house in Sandsend Crescent , Hartlepool , on Sunday night , but the blaze had been put out when the firefighters arrived . |
| 25 | Haacke has provoked resignations at the Guggenheim , and storms at the Tate over Charles Saatchi . |
| 26 | Although Arminius , who had taught theology at the University of Leyden , was in most respects an orthodox Protestant , on the question of salvation he had turned his back on a century of Reformed theology by arguing against the extreme predestinarian theology of Calvin 's successor at Geneva , Theodore Beza . |
| 27 | But , however this may be , the pope proceeded to the practical consequences of the new state of affairs : those who had already received lay investiture , or done homage , or consecrated others who had received lay investiture , were absolved ; for the future , those who received ecclesiastical preferment and did homage to the king could be consecrated , provided that they had not received investiture at the king 's hands ; and this was to continue until the heart of the king was softened by the rain of Anselm 's preaching . |
| 28 | When he was given work at a lathe that rounded and spiralled chairs ' legs he took no advice from the foreman , and instead watched the man next to him to study the working of the machine . |
| 29 | He had met Pamela at a club . |
| 30 | Cumberland was four months younger than Prince Charles , though , like him , he had seen action at the age of 13 . |