Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [noun prp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roy Jenkins , who succeeded Callaghan at the Exchequer after the enforced devaluation of November 1967 , persuaded Wilson formally to bury the DEA cadaver in 1969 . |
| 2 | Such were the troops who fought Alexander at the Granikos . |
| 3 | The project was overseen and produced by Ramuntcho Matta , who has studied classical composition , Indian vocal techniques and the tango , and who met Gysin at the age of 15 . |
| 4 | A friend who visited Brenda at the couple 's £325,000 mansion at Shenfield , Essex , said : ‘ We all have the impression that she wants the marriage to survive . |
| 5 | Anybody who visited America at the time when the exchange rate was two dollars to the pound will confirm that they could purchase a pound 's worth of goods for a dollar ; that is , at half the price they would pay at home . |
| 6 | It was George who encouraged Lucy at the start of her career — a career that began with a typewriter on the kitchen table at the couple 's council house in Derby . |
| 7 | On Sunday , he will have an important role in the final against a Galway side who stunned Tipperary at the semi-final stage . |
| 8 | Would any of the people who jeered Sinead at the Bob Dylan Concert in New York have the bottle to go on live prime-time TV , to criticise her ? |
| 9 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 10 | Benjamin Rhodes is exhibiting new sculptures of household objects by Zadok Ben-David ( to 13 June ) , who represented Israel at the Venice Biennale in 1988 . |
| 11 | He seized Flavia by the shoulders and shook her , , looked into her face and bellowed , ‘ So that 's the little girl who reads Voltaire at the bistro . ’ |
| 12 | The French speak a language derived from that small group of speakers of Latin who conquered Gaul at the beginning of the first millennium AD , although they suppose they are descended more from the Gauls than the Romans . |
| 13 | Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 50 ) mentions the theory that the temples ( though he treats them as palaces ) at Knossos and Phaistos were founded by foreign dynasts who invaded Crete at the beginning of the Middle Minoan period ; according to this view , urbanization occurred in Crete as a result of the arrival of already-urbanized conquerors . |
| 14 | Drummer Simon Smith , who replaced Charman at the beginning of 1988 , deals with much of the tedious organisation like booking hotels and ferries , sorting out transport to and from concerts , and driving . |
| 15 | In March 1679 he was appointed one of the five commissioners who replaced Danby at the Treasury , an appointment he held until his death . |
| 16 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |