Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( When he became Chancellor of the Exchequer this practice caused consternation at the Treasury , when he used only a page of notes to assist him in moving complicated resolutions on wartime finance ; he relied successfully on his memory to provide details and figures . ) |
| 2 | The ceremony took place at the Residence of the Icelandic Ambassador in London on Wednesday November 4 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The Bowling Club 's ceremony took place at the Wedgwood Pavilion Club and entertainment included a comedian and singer . |
| 5 | The confrontation took place at the Chi Ma Wan island detention centre , which houses those believed to be next in line for deportation . |
| 6 | And then the Greens ' past caught up with them — or , more accurately , was put on display by the government parties — and the Social Democrats retreated rapidly in case the electorate took fright at the thought of a pact with such a dubious , anarchic bunch . |
| 7 | So he experienced society from the bottom up , before talent and determination made room at the top for him : ‘ That was a most valuable bit of education for which I shall always be grateful both to my bourgeois ancestry as well as to the regime , ’ he was to say later . |
| 8 | Mr Tondut of Roo Management expressed outrage at the difficulties conservationists caused him and was quoted in the national press as saying , ‘ I do n't want to do anything to damage these houses . |
| 9 | The final rounds of the judging took place at the charity ball that evening . |
| 10 | The woman 's ordeal took place at the house where she lives alone in the village of Newton Longville just outside Milton Keynes . |
| 11 | The first meeting of the Bedford Public Assistance Committee took place at the Shire Hall on November 2nd 1929 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The council put Arianism at the head of its agenda . |
| 14 | My husband expressed horror at the prospect of a similar incident occurring today . |
| 15 | The official report of that conference expressed regret at the omission of any adequate treatment of Southern Buddhism , and the questionnaire and its answers attempted to remedy the omission . |
| 16 | Other supporters of the move expressed joy at the outcome and concern for those who felt disappointed by it . |
| 17 | Safeall Security started work at the Silverhill plant on September 6 — just four days after their contract with the City Council was terminated . |
| 18 | The meeting took place at the home of area co-ordinator Mike Burley . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | THe IVth European Conference took place at the University of Stirling from 27-31 August 1990 and was attended by approximately 515 participants . |
| 21 | The conference took place at the Polytechnic of Central London in January 1973 , with Kerr and Berrill each chairing one of the sessions . |
| 22 | On the first run the purchaser discovered a number of faults ; the dynamo did not work and the lorry consumed petrol at the rate of 5 m.p.g . |
| 23 | And so it was that a simple service took place at the parish church . |
| 24 | The first part of the 44th regular session of the UN General Assembly took place at the UN headquarters in New York from Sept. 19 to Dec. 29 , 1989 , chaired by Maj.-Gen. |
| 25 | When the great wave of railway-building took place at the end of the nineteenth century , the old industrial commodities of iron , coal , and cotton were still important , but they were now joined by many others . |
| 26 | The next major episode of industrial conflict took place at the Grunwick film-processing factory in London , where workers — a high proportion of them Asian women — were demanding the right to unionise . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The event took place at the Harwich School , but students from Tendring High School , Clacton County High School , Colbayns School at Clacton and Brightlingsea 's Colne High School , also joined in . |
| 30 | In the year 1184 , an event took place at the Palace which at the time must have sent a ripple through the whole country for Richard , Archbishop of Canterbury , the man who had succeeded Thomas Becket , died here at Halling . |