Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] at the " 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 Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream .
4 ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said .
5 Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night .
6 She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ .
7 The hounds threw themselves at the gate .
8 John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage .
9 Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate .
10 Reporters waited outside her apartment day and night , while photographers badgered her at the Young England kindergarten where she worked .
11 The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’
12 Melford and a group of bowmen greeted us at the gate .
13 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 .
14 Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig .
15 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 .
16 The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down .
17 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 ’ .
18 Not for the first time this season MrTyson needed a police escort as protesting losers surrounded him at the end .
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