Example sentences of "was [verb] at [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The works of art were recovered when a car was stopped at roadworks on the A19 near Cleveland Tontine , Northallerton , on Thursday . |
| 2 | This treaty was ratified at Calais on 24 October 1360 , with one important modification . |
| 3 | John Glendenen was dropped at gully on two and also survived a couple of injudicious waves outside the off stump . |
| 4 | Most are seen singly or in twos and threes , but up to 10 have been recorded together and , in 1963 a party of 50 was seen at Burpham on 30 January , and another , which finally totalled 29 , was present at Weir Wood Reservoir in March . |
| 5 | One was shot at Horsham in 1849 , probably in July ; one was shot between Steyning and Henfield about 30 September 1934 ; one was seen at Brighton on 29 April 1951 . |
| 6 | There were two summer records : one was picked up dead in Houghton Forest on 14 June 1971 , and one was seen at Bracklesham on 27 July 1972 . |
| 7 | The unification of the Yemen Arab Republic ( North Yemen , with its capital at San'aa ) and the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen ( South Yemen , with its capital at Aden ) was proclaimed at midday on May 22 , after ratification the previous day by both parliaments . |
| 8 | Twenty years later still , under Louis IX and with the needs of the crusade in mind , a port was built at Aigues-Mortes on the Mediterranean , to be used for commercial and , even more so , for military purposes . |
| 9 | By 1646 , the Royalists were defeated and King Charles I was charged with treason against the peoples parliament and was beheaded at Westminster on 30th , January 1649 . |
| 10 | He resigned the Privy Seal ( as was conventional ) and was consecrated at Lambeth on 5 January 1382 . |
| 11 | His election was confirmed in July 1319 and he was consecrated at Avignon on 26 August . |
| 12 | The preliminary text of a new good neighbourliness and mutual co-operation treaty with the Soviet Union was agreed at talks on Nov. 5-6 . |
| 13 | Bought in an English street market thirty years ago for a few shillings , a hitherto unidentified still-life by Luis Melendez ( 1716–1780 ) was sold at Bonhams on 10 December for £850,000 ( $1.36 million ) . |
| 14 | By 1845 the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield were about to be conquered , and a terminus in Sheffield was opened at Bridgehouses on July 14th of that year . |
| 15 | Ever since the first public park was opened at Ormeau on Easter Saturday 1871 , the commitment to providing public open space has been on the increase . |
| 16 | The UGCC was founded at Saltpond on the coast on 29 December 1947 to work for ‘ government … of the people and their Chiefs ’ . |
| 17 | William George Smith was born at Southampton on Nov 4 1923 , son of a Merchant Navy engineer who had accompanied Shackleton on his journey to the Antarctic . |
| 18 | Antonis Tritsis was born at Agostoli on the island of Cephalonia in 1937 . |
| 19 | Geoffrey Reginald Giles was born at Coventry on Dec 17 1936 and educated at Bablake School , Coventry , and Manchester University , where he qualified as a doctor in 1960 . |
| 20 | Robert Burns , regarded as one of the world 's greatest and best-loved poets , was born at Alloway on 25 January 1759 . |
| 21 | Zulfiqar Ali Khan was born at Rampur on March 11 , 1933 , the second son of Maj-General Sir Syed Mohammad Raza Ali Khan , the ruler of Rampur , renowned for his sexual prowess . |
| 22 | A loose coupled freight hauled by Nos. 76028/29 was derailed at speed on this point ( featured in our first volume ) and the eastbound track was never reinstated . |
| 23 | Professor Clifford Formston has vividly described the Hobday debacle , and the period when the College was based at Streatley on Thames . |
| 24 | The Simon Levinson Quaich was played at Auchterarder on 2nd July , with John McAusland as winner and Joe Kerr as runner up . |
| 25 | Birds ringed in Northumberland were recovered at Southwick in February 1954 , and at Horsted Keynes on 25 March 1962 , and one from the Isle of May , Forth , was recovered at Roedean on 18 January 1970 . |
| 26 | A world record for work by Eileen Gray was set at Drouot on 3 July when Paris dealer Cheska Vallois parted with FFr1.16 million ( £123,404 ; $245,574 ) , double the estimate , for a rectangular red lacquered table by the Art Deco designer . |
| 27 | Group 1 was to land at Hollevik on the island 's south shore , to clear a known defence point and villages a mile to a mile and a half from the town of South Vaagsö , and then move in support of Group 2 , which was to land just south of the town and capture it . |
| 28 | ln the early 1930s part of my childhood was spent at Redcar on Teesside , then as now a down at heel seaside resort surrounded by steel works and wind swept dunes . |
| 29 | The will was proved at London on 21 August 1839 . |
| 30 | Smith was a rich man — his estate was proved at £110,891 on his death — and he travelled widely . |