Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
2 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
3 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
4 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
5 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
6 | The hounds threw themselves at the gate . |
7 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
8 | Reporters waited outside her apartment day and night , while photographers badgered her at the Young England kindergarten where she worked . |
9 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
10 | Melford and a group of bowmen greeted us at the gate . |
11 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
12 | Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig . |
13 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
14 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |
15 | The arsenic is now on its way elsewhere , nor is the shake-up ending there , as dumps all over Europe have by turns found themselves at the end of the latest ‘ lead ’ . |
16 | Not for the first time this season MrTyson needed a police escort as protesting losers surrounded him at the end . |