Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Camberwell Bobby Hunt formed the Bob Hunt 's Ragtime Band ( Bobby on trumpet , Oska on trombone , Monty Sunshine on clarinet , Terry Arthurs on piano and Denis ( ‘ Pip ’ ) Piper on a one-string bass made out of a wooden box and a broomhandle ) and which rehearsed at lunchtime in the pottery room , Minton helping some of its members to buy their instruments . |
| 2 | It is also relevant to note that 55% of injuries which occurred at school happened in the playground . |
| 3 | Loyalist terrorists were last night blamed for a parcel bomb which exploded at Post Office headquarters in Belfast . |
| 4 | Boris came in and started walking exercise after a scan , by Sue Dyson at Newmarket , revealed that his strained suspensory ligament ( which happened at Badminton in the spring ) had sufficiently healed . |
| 5 | It was the final stage in a dramatic story which started at Birth for Adisa . |
| 6 | It was the final stage in a dramatic story which started at Birth for Adisa . |
| 7 | The coast is strewn with wreckage , with the keels of the overturned boats , all that remains of the twenty to thirty ships which lay at anchor here the day before . |
| 8 | So she waited , pacing about her room and going to the window every other minute to look across the harbour at the carrack which lay at anchor a cable or so from the town landing stage . |
| 9 | Secondly , from the point of view of lexical discrimination , Zue in the above paper summarizes studies which looked at equivalence class sizes for a 20,000 word lexicon represented using six broad phonetic categories . |
| 10 | A threequarter point base rate cut the following day failed to brake the decline , which bottomed at lunch yesterday below the 18,000 mark . |
| 11 | The compulsory retirement of active , healthy elderly people who were willing to continue working was seen as a contributory factor to the high rate of suicide among the aged ( WHO 1959 ; Logan 1953 ) which peaked at age 70 ; deferred retirement was advocated as a preventive measure ( Batchelor and Napier 1953 ) . |
| 12 | Anderson , twice winner of the North of Ireland , and once the South , was hurt when he failed to make the 1989 team which won at Peach Tree . |
| 13 | She smelled strange scents , and saw ‘ with her bodily eyes ’ small white things , as thick as specks in a sunbeam , which appeared at night as well as in the daytime . |
| 14 | Most popular lifestyle programme was Wish You Were Here with Judith Chalmers , which appeared at No 20 with 16.3 million viewers . |
| 15 | If this suggestion was difficult to swallow , Mother Bombie 's home made soup , which appeared at supper time , presented a real problem . |
| 16 | And remembering it now , with the child of that night growing towards a life of its own in my body , I was appalled again by the memory of a frustration worse than any self-denial , which ended at dawn with us lying apart from each other , both pretending to be asleep but both staring with dry wide-awake eyes into a bottomless pit of dismay . |
| 17 | After his show , which ended at lOpm , he and I chatted about popularity polls , and at his suggestion , because of the noise in the studio auditorium , we stepped out onto the small balcony adjoining the fire escape stairway . |
| 18 | With the rain cutting visibiity to less than a hundred feet , it was as if they were trapped inside a glass tumbler the sides of which held at bay the blackness of the storm . |
| 19 | What made at home , or |