Example sentences of "took [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all ages , the late Middle Ages had its critics who took swipes at the activities of soldiers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Keith and Tim took part at the Central Pool in Reading . |
| 4 | She invested in up-to-date equipment , took out a subscription to hairdressing magazines to keep in touch with the latest ideas , and took clients at the weekends and evenings . |
| 5 | The Portuguese officials said they would hear the appeal on 18 October and confirmed the appeal only involved the fine and not the ban , which actually took effect at the Spanish Grand Prix last Sunday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The launch took place at the site of the Trust 's first major project , a disused clay pit at Bean , near Dartford , where work has started to create an 80 acre country park . |
| 9 | These were organised by Roger Draper , and took place at The Hong Kong Arts Centre ( 17 Nov ) , The City Hall Concert Hall ( 21 Nov ) and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall ( 25 Nov ) . |
| 10 | On January 24 1987 a demonstration with 12,000 to 15,000 demonstrators took place at the premises of newspaper proprietors in Wapping and there were many arrests . |
| 11 | The confrontation took place at the Chi Ma Wan island detention centre , which houses those believed to be next in line for deportation . |
| 12 | It took place at the house of my friend R E. Vernede , himself a poet of some promise and a novelist of some performance who was also killed in the ‘ 14–18 ’ war . |
| 13 | Prague 's second famous defenestration took place at the Hradčany Castle when Bohemian Protestants again thought themselves threatened in 1618 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It took place at the junction of Wilton and Devizes Roads , opposite the County Gaol . |
| 16 | Experiments in electrical recording continued , but the most significant research took place at the Western Electric laboratories in New York . |
| 17 | The annual presentations for the men 's section of Aldershot , Farnham & District Athletic Club took place at the Military Stadium on Friday . |
| 18 | These two ladies decided to form a social club , and organised a tea party which took place at the Ladies Park Club , where the Spurs Club was launched . |
| 19 | The much-hyped arm-wrestling match between Kurt Herwald , chairman of U.S. FBO Stevens Aviation Inc. and his opposite number at Southwest Airlines , Herb Kelleher ( Pilot Notes , April ) took place at the Dallas Sportatorium in Dallas in March . |
| 20 | The wake took place at the house on Mahogany Drive . |
| 21 | The meeting took place at the home of area co-ordinator Mike Burley . |
| 22 | The final rounds of the judging took place at the charity ball that evening . |
| 23 | Then on 21 May , while Gandhi languished in jail , one of the great set pieces of the civil disobedience movement , more successful perhaps than any other in arousing world-wide sympathy with the Indian cause , took place at the Dharsana salt works . |
| 24 | The interior filming of John and Mary took place at the old and dilapidated Biograph Studios which were at 174th Street in the Bronx . |
| 25 | These violent rituals became a regular event and the police and I were soon on first-name terms , although most of the beatings took place at the week-ends when I was at my Pop 's house . |
| 26 | The best debate in Britain this year took place at the Conservative Party conference when speaker after speaker analysed and criticised what was happening to the economy . |
| 27 | THE revels that once took place at the New Year turned everything base over apex . |
| 28 | In early Rome this took place at the old New Year which was in March — the Ides of March to be precise . |
| 29 | Down in Frome they were preparing for the worst ; on 23 February 1798 a meeting of the ‘ inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Frome ’ took place at the George Inn . |
| 30 | Before making this move east into Stepney , John Frederick Hasted had married in 1803 a young lady by the name of Sarah Hunt , with his sister Elizabeth acting as a witness ; the ceremony took place at the City church of All Hallows by the Tower ( also known as All Hallows Barking ) . |