Example sentences of "took [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 2 | Earlier , as the government and ANC took steps at the weekend to prepare for South Africa 's first all-race elections , President FW de Klerk gave cabinet posts to non-whites for the first time in South Africa 's history and got rid of white ministers said to be reluctant to back his sweeping apartheid reforms . |
| 3 | Weber scurried to the ship 's blower , and shouted down it in fury , while Katze knelt below the shattered windowpane and took potshots at the dock with his Luger . |
| 4 | Five days after the disaster at Douaumont , on May 13th , the third major conference of the campaign took place at the Crown Prince 's headquarters . |
| 5 | The memorial celebration for Philip took place at the Aldwych Theatre — and it was triumphant . |
| 6 | A great deal of discussion took place at the playground gate and when questionnaires were returned there was a 95 per cent response rate with over 98 per cent of those parents in favour of adopting a uniform on a voluntary basis including an agreement on colour and style . |
| 7 | The final rounds of the judging took place at the charity ball that evening . |
| 8 | The conference took place at the Polytechnic of Central London in January 1973 , with Kerr and Berrill each chairing one of the sessions . |
| 9 | According to some sources , the death of Apollonius of Tyana took place at the sanctuary of Diktynna . |
| 10 | Every twelve years , a ceremony known as the Kumbh mela took place at the confluence of the Jumna ( Yamuna ) and Ganges rivers just outside Allahabad . |
| 11 | The break-in took place at the System Business Machines premises on the town 's Britannia Park industrial estate . |
| 12 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 13 | The broadcast took place at the beginning of September from the site of a National Beach Clean Day , sponsored by the National Trust and Radio 2 . |
| 14 | The OECD Economic Outlook of June 1990 attributed most of the favourable development in inflation at the end of 1989 to a stabilization of oil prices , the further softening of non-oil raw material prices , and the absorption of the effects of indirect tax increases which took place at the beginning of 1989 . |
| 15 | The raid took place at the Elf service station at Woodmancote near Dursley . |
| 16 | Disorder took place at the Assembly meetings held before and after the changeover . |
| 17 | The meeting took place at the home of area co-ordinator Mike Burley . |
| 18 | Prague 's second famous defenestration took place at the Hradčany Castle when Bohemian Protestants again thought themselves threatened in 1618 . |
| 19 | For the first time a very important ceremony , the Rite of Election , took place at the Cathedral , led by Bishop Brewer . |
| 20 | A meeting then took place at the border on Nov. 8 between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , first on the German side at Frankfurt an der Oder and then across the river at Slubice ( part of pre-1945 Frankfurt ) . |
| 21 | THe IVth European Conference took place at the University of Stirling from 27-31 August 1990 and was attended by approximately 515 participants . |
| 22 | The world summit for children which took place at the weekend caught the headlines around the world and the world 's leaders put their heads together and agreed that children all round the world are suffering and something must be done about it . |
| 23 | An especially important event along these lines , according to the increasingly favoured theory of the American biologist Lynn Margulis , took place at the origin of the so-called eukaryotic cell . |
| 24 | An altercation took place at the entrance to the circuit when the irascible John McDonald sought to block the bus with his car — the idea of drivers striking and being independent of their owners struck him as positively mediaeval — but was resolved by a little gentle persuasion and a show of force by an angry Jacques Laffite . |
| 25 | Before leaving Mr Rees 's favourite subject , it is worth recalling what took place at the MALG Conference earlier this year . |
| 26 | It took place at the junction of Wilton and Devizes Roads , opposite the County Gaol . |
| 27 | Prior to completion of the missives a meeting took place at the farm when an offer was made to purchase it from the defender at a price of £65,000 . |
| 28 | Some 15 months earlier , however , a meeting had been held at the same spot , and after that meeting , a disturbance took place at the training centre ( although the report of the case gives no indication of the scale or the cause of the previous disturbance ) . |
| 29 | The first meeting of the Bedford Public Assistance Committee took place at the Shire Hall on November 2nd 1929 . |
| 30 | Further discussion took place at the County Council meeting in March , at which £15,000 was included in the estimates to finance a study . |