Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] at [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke , who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Irish Regiment , visited bases at Omagh and Dungannon , Co Tyrone , and Magherafelt , Co Londonderry . |
| 2 | Barbara swivelled in the seat and mouthed threats at Richard and Kate . |
| 3 | They were joined in the network by specialist teachers , funded by the ILEA and based in the special schools , who visited children at home before they were due to start school . |
| 4 | In 1926 he built studios at Elstree and made his first tentative move into production with The Woman Tempted . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher herself made appearances at Church and Methodist assemblies to rebuke bishops and nonconformist leaders for their hostile approach towards material gain , their over-involvement with issues such as poverty and urban decay , and their over-zealous support for black African nationalists in South Africa . |
| 6 | He told magistrates at Cheltenham that he never retaliated if he sensed trouble in his work . |
| 7 | Mike Walker 's men suffered canings at Blackburn and Liverpool — now Dean Saunders threatens another . |
| 8 | It was in this way that Havard first came to hear many of Tolkien 's tales , David Cecil 's Two Quiet Lives , and reflections on Dante by Colin Hardie ( who taught Classics at Magdalen and was also a regular member of the circle ) , as well as many of Lewis 's own works . |
| 9 | Connors left the Brazilian shaking his head in disbelief as he hit winners at will and showed the kind of form that rocketed him to the semi-finals last year . |
| 10 | The single mother who was a rape victim ( you have no excuse whatever , the judge had told the culprit ) ; the family whose home was struck by lightning the day after their insurers went broke ; the legless man who packed cosmetics at home because he liked to feel he was paying his way . |
| 11 | I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) . |
| 12 | They took turns at day and night shifts . |
| 13 | It sold dollars at $1.5715 and German marks at DM2.96 . |
| 14 | During the year we completed operations at Foxhouse and Trinity sites . |
| 15 | He stopped the taxi at a shop and they bought tights at speed while the meter ticked . |
| 16 | From time to time she hissed instructions at teachers or senior girls . |
| 17 | I 've seen him since with some really nice women and he had girls at school as well . |
| 18 | Richard Fry , managing director of Pettrac , said schemes at Inverness and Glasgow would be linked to the Scottish Pet Register , a computer operated from the Glasgow Dog and Cat Home . |
| 19 | The company is due to meet MSF leaders next week for talks over job losses , but a union official said foremen at Dagenham and Southampton had been ‘ chomping at the bit ’ to take industrial action before then . |
| 20 | He complained at length about a Gallic bishop called Aldebert , who held services at springs and groves instead of in properly consecrated churches , spurned the established saints ' cults by distributing his own finger-nails as saintly relics , and invoked the names of archangels which were not to be found in the Bible . |