Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers looked at a sample of 302 people who had inherited a house . |
| 2 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
| 3 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
| 4 | The decisions came at a meeting of a sub-committee of the highways committee . |
| 5 | The support given to Vera Coppard and her family by the Quakers came at a point when the Jewish organisations in Berlin and Vienna were reduced almost to the point of impotence . |
| 6 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 7 | Ecstasy , Cannabis , and LSD : The drugs siezed at a LEGAL rave . |
| 8 | One of the boatmen grinned at a green-faced Maltote . |
| 9 | Interviews for the jobs started at a Belfast hotel last Thursday and will continue until tomorrow . |