Example sentences of "[vb past] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIVAS OF BLOOD STEMMED AT LAST |
| 2 | He continued to urge Canterbury 's supremacy over York , and in the general settlement of 1107 , Archbishop Gerard promised at last to show him the same obedience as archbishop as he had owed as bishop of Hereford . |
| 3 | Tokyo : Prices rose at first after the ruling Liberal Democratic party 's by-election victory but drifted later to close mixed , with the Nikkei average 13.79 points lower at 35,622.97 . |
| 4 | It was departing from this grandiose encounter that Rose at last found Auguste , his head still full of exalted plans for the humble whiting . |
| 5 | ‘ Used to be three five one , ’ he pronounced at last . |
| 6 | The muffled voice behind the door sank at last into hopeless silence . |
| 7 | ‘ It was probably just concussion , ’ she joked at last . |
| 8 | The Magyars behaved at first as Asiatic nomads are supposed to , by ravaging across Germany . |
| 9 | The second trial , after months of going to and fro , moved at last to Orlando , an overwhelmingly white and conservative city , where juries , it is said , have never convicted a police officer for alleged misconduct in the line of duty . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course ! ’ he exclaimed at last . |
| 11 | The pyjamas fastened at last , Ashley rose shakily to her feet . |
| 12 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 13 | They probably do improve the services to the people on the estates ; they do hurry along their repairs , which I think you mentioned at first , Bill , but we 've still retained a central department . |
| 14 | No we 're going to erm Horsham for the Christmas party , the works Christmas party and erm , the hotel where Rob stopped at last time when he was down in Horsham , that 's where they 're doing Christmas party this year , so we obviously we staying in a double room |
| 15 | These qualities were already present to a degree in certain early works , such as the Forfar town hall and the contemporary Kirriemuir church , while at Melville the somewhat perfunctory detail in the castellated style is accompanied by other features reminiscent of the work of Sir John Soane [ q.v. ] ; but his style developed rapidly after his Parisian visit of 1787 , when he doubtless encountered at first hand the revolutionary architecture of E.-L . |
| 16 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
| 17 | The railway company always intended to lease the Euston as a first-class hotel but tried at first to run the Victoria itself . |
| 18 | She tried at first to do so in a properly genteel way , nibbling daintily . |
| 19 | Isobel objected at first . |
| 20 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 21 | Agrippa , although he objected at first , reluctantly consented to write out the warrants and disburse the necessary silver for our journeys . |
| 22 | She ventured at last to sit back on her heels , let her hands lie in her lap , and listen . |
| 23 | ‘ Luke , you ca n't condemn an entire institution because of one bad experience , ’ she ventured at last . |
| 24 | ‘ I heard the bell ring , ’ he ventured at last . |
| 25 | ‘ I could get a taxi , ’ she ventured at last . |
| 26 | There is a stunned silence … punctured at last by shrill , almost hysterical laughter . |
| 27 | I believe some of them visited at first , but it gradually dwindled — even Sonia and Paul Mason , whom she was very friendly with , stopped visiting . |
| 28 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
| 29 | ‘ I remember her , ’ Sladen pounced , thankful for something he recognised at last . |
| 30 | There is a certain Hubris in life , and by this word , the Greeks denoted a form of retribution so that in the end those who were very fortunate should suffer and those who suffered at first would receive succour . |