Example sentences of "[vb past] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 2 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 3 | In Clwyd , the terminal at Point of Ayr promised at most 132 jobs for the duration of the drilling process , she said . |
| 4 | His brows rose at this flash of spirit . |
| 5 | Marc 's eyebrows rose at this , but his face was kept carefully blank . |
| 6 | Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor . |
| 7 | Fagin entered at this point , with two young men , and joined in the conversation . |
| 8 | Bodger Badger , Lord Mayor of Riverbank , bristled at this . |
| 9 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |
| 10 | So nobody grumbled at all about paying an extra er bit for for these men . |
| 11 | But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things . |
| 12 | And in that moment , as he winced at this new casualty , he lost the advantage that the suddenness of his irruption into the gun chamber had given him . |
| 13 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 14 | ‘ Then there was the beardo-weirdo , ’ Melissa winced at this pejorative reference to Barney , ‘ and the Wednesday creep . |
| 15 | Iris winced at this unnecessarily blunt reference to Eddie 's sexuality , having already made it clear that she held similar views to Sybil 's . |
| 16 | From the later 1830s the rulers of Prussia and Russia maintained at each other 's courts military plenipotentiaries , high-ranking officers whose role in relations between the two monarchs was often more important than that of any diplomat . |
| 17 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 18 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 19 | Other organic wines from Haughton include : Red : Coteaux d'Aix en Provence , Les Baux , Mas de Gourgonnier Reserve du Mas '85 , Nature et Progres ( £8.95 , also Organic Wine Co — 0494 446557 — £8.35 ) ; Bandol , Chateau La Rochere '89 , ‘ independent ’ ; no sulphur used at all , a wonderfully exuberant explosive mouthful of cherry fruit , herbs and spices ( £7.20 ) . |
| 20 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 21 | Obviously one wants a language which enables this without demanding a lot of effort merely to be learnt and used at all . |
| 22 | The assembled crowd rejoiced at this unexpected joy , and Luch stood quietly unnoticed by the steps as they all turned away to where Abbot Kenneth stood in a perfect haze of delight . |
| 23 | This is unfortunate as these implied terms are a very useful weapon for the buyer and , in the case of consumer sales , the implied terms can not be excluded or modified at all . |
| 24 | My mother sighed as she peered at those crowding white sails and topgallants : ‘ If only he were here to see that ! ’ |
| 25 | He had very strong associated reactions in the arm whenever he moved at all . |
| 26 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 27 | I trembled at that nakedness and read : |
| 28 | His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave . |
| 29 | He had n't expected to hear her name mentioned at all . |
| 30 | And the former commander added : ‘ The Army does n't really want the regiment mentioned at all , but we lost guys out there and others were injured . |