Example sentences of "[vb past] place at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The confrontation took place at the Chi Ma Wan island detention centre , which houses those believed to be next in line for deportation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Prague 's second famous defenestration took place at the Hradčany Castle when Bohemian Protestants again thought themselves threatened in 1618 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It took place at the junction of Wilton and Devizes Roads , opposite the County Gaol . |
| 9 | Experiments in electrical recording continued , but the most significant research took place at the Western Electric laboratories in New York . |
| 10 | The annual presentations for the men 's section of Aldershot , Farnham & District Athletic Club took place at the Military Stadium on Friday . |
| 11 | These two ladies decided to form a social club , and organised a tea party which took place at the Ladies Park Club , where the Spurs Club was launched . |
| 12 | The much-hyped arm-wrestling match between Kurt Herwald , chairman of U.S. FBO Stevens Aviation Inc. and his opposite number at Southwest Airlines , Herb Kelleher ( Pilot Notes , April ) took place at the Dallas Sportatorium in Dallas in March . |
| 13 | The wake took place at the house on Mahogany Drive . |
| 14 | The meeting took place at the home of area co-ordinator Mike Burley . |
| 15 | The final rounds of the judging took place at the charity ball that evening . |
| 16 | Then on 21 May , while Gandhi languished in jail , one of the great set pieces of the civil disobedience movement , more successful perhaps than any other in arousing world-wide sympathy with the Indian cause , took place at the Dharsana salt works . |
| 17 | The interior filming of John and Mary took place at the old and dilapidated Biograph Studios which were at 174th Street in the Bronx . |
| 18 | These violent rituals became a regular event and the police and I were soon on first-name terms , although most of the beatings took place at the week-ends when I was at my Pop 's house . |
| 19 | The best debate in Britain this year took place at the Conservative Party conference when speaker after speaker analysed and criticised what was happening to the economy . |
| 20 | THE revels that once took place at the New Year turned everything base over apex . |
| 21 | In early Rome this took place at the old New Year which was in March — the Ides of March to be precise . |
| 22 | Down in Frome they were preparing for the worst ; on 23 February 1798 a meeting of the ‘ inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Frome ’ took place at the George Inn . |
| 23 | Before making this move east into Stepney , John Frederick Hasted had married in 1803 a young lady by the name of Sarah Hunt , with his sister Elizabeth acting as a witness ; the ceremony took place at the City church of All Hallows by the Tower ( also known as All Hallows Barking ) . |
| 24 | ‘ And what of today , my lord ? 'T IS what took place at the Guildhall that causes you distress , is not it ? ’ |
| 25 | An altercation took place at the entrance to the circuit when the irascible John McDonald sought to block the bus with his car — the idea of drivers striking and being independent of their owners struck him as positively mediaeval — but was resolved by a little gentle persuasion and a show of force by an angry Jacques Laffite . |
| 26 | Further discussion took place at the County Council meeting in March , at which £15,000 was included in the estimates to finance a study . |
| 27 | Carlow , took place at the Parish Hall on Tuesday 28 November 1989 . |
| 28 | ( Luke : Luke records that the forecast of Peter 's denial took place at the Last Supper itself . |
| 29 | The event took place at the Harwich School , but students from Tendring High School , Clacton County High School , Colbayns School at Clacton and Brightlingsea 's Colne High School , also joined in . |
| 30 | Members of the national and specialist press attended the launch of Head 's new Anatom System tennis shoe , which took place at the Roehampton Club during April . |