Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roy Jenkins , who succeeded Callaghan at the Exchequer after the enforced devaluation of November 1967 , persuaded Wilson formally to bury the DEA cadaver in 1969 . |
| 2 | Such were the troops who fought Alexander at the Granikos . |
| 3 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 4 | The project was overseen and produced by Ramuntcho Matta , who has studied classical composition , Indian vocal techniques and the tango , and who met Gysin at the age of 15 . |
| 5 | I am tempted to accept the Minister 's explanation of his motivation , but those in my constituency , one of the poorest in the country , who made claims at the time of the reforms found it more difficult to obtain any decent benefits from the system . |
| 6 | A friend who visited Brenda at the couple 's £325,000 mansion at Shenfield , Essex , said : ‘ We all have the impression that she wants the marriage to survive . |
| 7 | Anybody who visited America at the time when the exchange rate was two dollars to the pound will confirm that they could purchase a pound 's worth of goods for a dollar ; that is , at half the price they would pay at home . |
| 8 | He was the priest who visited patients at the private hospital on the hill . |
| 9 | Birkenhead-born Swain , who tasted life at the top as a player with Chelsea , Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa , said : ‘ Relegation is a terrible feeling for everyone involved and it wo n't go away until the first game of the season . |
| 10 | Those who seek wisdom at the shrine will find it . |
| 11 | Mackay is a Scot who came south at the request of Mrs Thatcher following the resignation of Lord Havers due to ill health in 1987 . |
| 12 | Back at the Noones ' , I enjoyed a snack in the front room , in the company of the good-looking teenage Noones , curly-headed Martin ( or ‘ Murt ’ ) and his pink-cheeked sister , a wholesome girl who played guitar at the Folk Mass . |
| 13 | They also affect those — such as special-needs teachers or welfare assistants — who hold posts at the school but are not funded through the delegated school budget . |
| 14 | In days of old , he was thought to have been ridden by one of the Foawr , fabled giants who threw stones at the earth as they passed overhead . |
| 15 | Britain has not yet received any formal demand for the extradition of the demonstrators who threw bricks at the Iranian embassy in London and smashed windows . |
| 16 | It was George who encouraged Lucy at the start of her career — a career that began with a typewriter on the kitchen table at the couple 's council house in Derby . |
| 17 | It was explicitly cited as a rationale for the sentence in the 1991 case of Marcus Serjeant , an unemployed teenager who fired blanks at the Queen during the Trooping the Colour ceremony . |
| 18 | On Sunday , he will have an important role in the final against a Galway side who stunned Tipperary at the semi-final stage . |
| 19 | Nearly 4,000 objectors from all over the country — including religious pilgrims who attend retreats at the Franciscan Friary opposite the convent have signed protest petitions . |
| 20 | Although tests had not been completed it seemed probable that the infection was contracted during surgery and a junior member of the surgical team had been identified as a carrier who began work at the hospital in last May . |
| 21 | To those who expressed alarm at the fact that Finland and Poland were already separating from Russia : |
| 22 | Would any of the people who jeered Sinead at the Bob Dylan Concert in New York have the bottle to go on live prime-time TV , to criticise her ? |
| 23 | A child who suffers abuse at the hand of a stranger can expect comfort and protection from his or her family ; incest victims often have no-one to whom to turn — those who should support have been the cause of suffering . ’ |
| 24 | AT LEAST four buildings will have to be demolished and rebuilt , including the Baltic Exchange Chambers and the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange , according to Corporation of London surveyors , who examined buildings at the weekend . |
| 25 | who handled scenery at the Old Vic — |
| 26 | Richard , who started work at the University in 1969 as assistant cook in the halls of residence , has been Assistant Catering Manager since 1973 , based at the Revis Barber and Dennis Bellamy Halls , where his deputy , head cook Ian Wade has been ruling the kitchens for 24 years . |
| 27 | It said little about the state of football at Athletico , but quite a lot about the lefty , New Age lecturers who encourage students at the Tech . |
| 28 | The MP was one who switched sides at the last minute to vote in favour of the treaty . |
| 29 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 30 | Rather , it is to agree with his conclusion that , while for the articulate elite , like the artisans who constituted the Owenite membership of the National Union of Working Classes and Others and who debated reform at the London Rotunda , the kind of reform they wanted — annual parliaments , universal suffrage and the ballot — was just what Grey expressly denied . |