Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was the end of the road for former council chairman Archie McAuley , who crashed at the polls after 32 years on the council . |
| 2 | The issue was raised by Phil Gallie , Conservative MP for Ayr , who protested at the actions of French fishermen yesterday in destroying £10,000 worth of fish en route from Ayr to Germany . |
| 3 | Just as men 's muscularity was and is celebrated in the histories , so was another man fascinated by the muscularity of women who worked at the pitheads . |
| 4 | And it was the taller of the two boys who looked at the others before explaining , ‘ He 's got little legs . ’ |
| 5 | It is important for the Government to pursue other involved parties — including the company itself , but also the finan cial advisers who put savers into the Gibraltar fund without inquiring too much about how it was able to offer such high rates of interest , not to mention the auditors who looked at the books . |
| 6 | The heroes of the faith who died at the hands of the persecutor had long enjoyed special honour among Christians , as , before them , among Jews . |
| 7 | The porcelain produced at Chelsea was said to compare with Dresden 's fine china and there was always keen competition amongst dealers who waited at the doors to purchase pieces as soon as they emerged from the ovens . |
| 8 | They possessed a faint whiff of humour , those men who sat at the ankles of Iosif . |