Example sentences of "[vb past] place at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular concern is the pattern of abductions by armed men in plain clothes in security force style operations , most of which took place at night . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 3 | Another event took place at Birdland , a jazz-club in the centre of Montreal , where Leonard gave poetry readings after midnight , frequently to the accompaniment of his own guitar on which he improvised appropriate backings , though often in company with more experienced jazz musicians . |
| 4 | A game with a difference took place at Wimbledon , the oldest women 's club in the world , as part of their centenary celebrations — a costume game between a side representing the pioneers of the club and one representing the swinging Thirties . |
| 5 | A MAJOR step in the development of the game in the ranks of the Services took place at St Helens on Sunday , when , in a curtain-raiser to the first match of the New Zealand tour , an RAF team defeated an Army XIII by 22-14 . |
| 6 | The prison break-out attempt took place at Crumlin Road jail in Belfast on Saturday , but failed after police discovered a large bomb nearby . |
| 7 | Boomer was selected again for the 1929 match , which took place at Moortown , Leeds , and was made vice-captain under George Duncan . |
| 8 | His 1939 journey took place at a time when anti-British sentiments were beginning to reach Hadhramaut from Cairo and there was increasing criticism of the privileges of sayyid rulers . |
| 9 | The launch took place at the site of the Trust 's first major project , a disused clay pit at Bean , near Dartford , where work has started to create an 80 acre country park . |
| 10 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |
| 11 | These were organised by Roger Draper , and took place at The Hong Kong Arts Centre ( 17 Nov ) , The City Hall Concert Hall ( 21 Nov ) and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall ( 25 Nov ) . |
| 12 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 13 | The Consultation took place at All Saints Pastoral Centre , London Colney , Herts , 7–8 November 1989 . |
| 14 | On January 24 1987 a demonstration with 12,000 to 15,000 demonstrators took place at the premises of newspaper proprietors in Wapping and there were many arrests . |
| 15 | The match of the day , though , took place at Darley Abbey in Derbyshire . |
| 16 | The confrontation took place at the Chi Ma Wan island detention centre , which houses those believed to be next in line for deportation . |
| 17 | ( Unfortunately , there is no hint of the conversations that took place at this time between Lloyd George and Mr Thomas as they took their daily morning walk ‘ across the park ’ from the underground station at Westminster . ) |
| 18 | It took place at the house of my friend R E. Vernede , himself a poet of some promise and a novelist of some performance who was also killed in the ‘ 14–18 ’ war . |
| 19 | This took place at Brighton in the climate of Italian aggression against Abyssinia and Ernest Bevin , with the support of the trade-union movement , swept away the protests of Lansbury and Cripps ' Socialist League to win conference support for collective security through the League of Nations sanctions , including , if necessary , military sanctions against Italian aggression in Abyssinia . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most famous row over this took place at St Mary 's Baptist Church in Norwich in the 1850s . |
| 21 | There were special services to commemorate the Queen 's death in 1901 as well as ‘ United Communion Services ’ which took place at each National Council . |
| 22 | Prague 's second famous defenestration took place at the Hradčany Castle when Bohemian Protestants again thought themselves threatened in 1618 . |
| 23 | The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 24 | The annual Christmas lecture for sixth formers , organised by the Chilterns and Middlesex Section , took place at Brunel University on 4 December . |
| 25 | That meeting took place at Berchtesgaden , and Hitler was persuaded to delay action over Sudetenland for a week while Chamberlain consulted his colleagues , also the French government . |
| 26 | A crucial meeting took place at Chequers on 26 and 27 May 1984 . |
| 27 | A great deal of discussion took place at the playground gate and when questionnaires were returned there was a 95 per cent response rate with over 98 per cent of those parents in favour of adopting a uniform on a voluntary basis including an agreement on colour and style . |
| 28 | The meeting took place at Cherbourg in August 1858 , coinciding with the opening of a vast new deep-water dock and the unveiling of a statue of Napoleon I , the Queen and Prince Albert having crossed in the Royal Yacht accompanied by the Prince of Wales and escorted by 140 private English yachts . |
| 29 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 30 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |