Example sentences of "[n mass] [pron] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passers-by seized arthritic Frederick Cowen , 68 , as he hobbled from the Midland Bank with £1,500 he stole at the point of a fake gun made from a hosepipe . |
| 2 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 3 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 4 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 5 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 6 | There 's a memorial service to the people who died at the weekend ; many of those still suffering will be there . |
| 7 | They 've already tracked down many of the people who stayed at the guest house over the past week . |
| 8 | The witnesses were people who worked at the registry office . |
| 9 | WABI was written by people who worked at the BIOS house Phoenix Technologies and later at Integrated Technologies Inc . |
| 10 | None of the people who worked at the hotel could explain how the shoe had got back into the room . |
| 11 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 12 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 13 | Estimated high at $500–600,000 it sold at the desk for $480,000 ( £320,000 ) , still a very strong price today for this artist . |
| 14 | Along with millions of youngsters , the trio are huge fans of the series which finished at the weekend . |
| 15 | SCO claims 28% of all Unixes sold on all platforms against SunSoft 's 25% , though Open Desktop sales remain stuck at around 35% of its business instead of the 60% it envisaged at the launch of Open Desktop 2.0 this time last year . |
| 16 | ‘ Cos I know a lot about fish.in He beamed at the crowd around us , then turned to the tank once more . |