Example sentences of "[been] [verb] at an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toy soldier enthusiasts have been gathering at an auction to try and pick up some bargains . |
| 2 | Shop fittings which were worth £3,000 and had been bought at an auction by Transom Trading for only £1,500 prior to opening the shop in August 1991 . |
| 3 | A Racomitrium -rich prostrate Calluna heath has , however , been noted at an altitude of only 200 m on Mullach an Reidhachd , North Harris ( NB090143 ) ( Brown 1986 ) . |
| 4 | For the same reason these last two chairs are not turned to face the rest of the group : they have been set at an angle , obliquely oriented towards the open-work balustrade and the hillside opposite . |
| 5 | Jarrad 's directors produced a copy of a special resolution , said to have been passed at an egm held by Jarrad on 20 October 1980 , which gave Jarrad power to grant the security . |
| 6 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
| 7 | The pest , a tiny fawn-coloured mite called varroa which can cause havoc in commercial hives , has been discovered at an apiary run by the Torbay Beekeepers ' Association . |
| 8 | A verdict of suicide has been recorded at an inquest into the death of a twenty one year old Oxford University student . |
| 9 | A verdict of unlawful killing has been recorded at an inquest into the death of a tourist shot dead by terrorists while on holiday in Egypt . |