Example sentences of "[vb past] at [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they rated at with the high , when the house boom was on |
| 2 | The eighteenth-century oil of Wicken Fen by an artist whose indecipherable signature , peered at through a microscope , had provided so many shared moments of happy conjecture . |
| 3 | Otherwise it was like a wrinkled prune , lying beside its mother , who loathed having her breasts pulled and sucked at for milk , which however came . |
| 4 | gaped at from double-deckers . |
| 5 | This information fits logically with other known factors which occurred at about the time that people began this transition , observed Harris , including spreading village life and a rapid increase in the human population . |
| 6 | If this reconstruction is sound , Oswiu 's encounter with Fín occurred at about the time that he may have been seeking Irish support against the forces of Penda . |
| 7 | The incident occurred at about noon on Monday . |
| 8 | Otherwise , who else would subject themselves to being square-bashed , shouted at by petty officers , and made to do ghastly things in force ten gales ? |
| 9 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 10 | And they shouted at in a while they saw it coming up again , they give another warning . |
| 11 | People in the square outside the museum panicked and ran when the bomb exploded at about 1 pm , shortly before the afternoon rush hour . |
| 12 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 13 | This screening came at about midnight , after a traditional Elizabethan dinner and free drinks , with an 8.30am departure due the following day . |
| 14 | As Table 3.1 shows , referrals to the action project came at between nil and eight per month ( an average monthly rate of 4.5 in Ipswich and 3.4 in Newham ) . |
| 15 | That night I woke at half-past three and lay brooding over my lack of progress . |
| 16 | It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time . |
| 17 | The accident happened at about 7:40am when the lorry , travelling towards Stirling , crossed the central reservation and hit the car , which was heading towards Glasgow , before plunging off the motorway and careering down an embankment and landing on the A883 Denny-Falkirk road . |
| 18 | Yet the allied policy arrived at on Stevenson 's and Churchill 's initiative was the same in respect of all these groups , even including the Croat Ustachi . |
| 19 | In March 1913 , profiting from Wilson 's 1911 victory , Larking embarked on a fifteen week dispute with the City of Dublin Steamship Packet Company , bringing this to a successful conclusion and becoming in his biographer 's words , " the virtual dictator of the port of Dublin " , and the possessor of a profitable joint agreement with the shipowners arrived at on 26 May which included a no-strike clause . |
| 20 | The amount will be determined either by a percentage , a fixed sum arrived at on some other basis , or an hourly rate . |
| 21 | But not four months , which has been the German authorities ' second-thought suggestion , arrived at without the benefit of further evidence — which , indeed , on the general admission of all parties , does not exist . |
| 22 | My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . " |
| 23 | Chris arrived at about teatime . |
| 24 | The problems associated with the battle of the forms arise because the common law principles governing the formation of contracts are based on the concept of a bargain arrived at through a process of negotiation , while the whole purpose of standard conditions is to minimise or exclude the process of negotiation . |
| 25 | ( In the seventeenth century Bishop Ussher calculated a date of 4004 B.C. for the creation of the universe , a figure he arrived at by adding up the ages of people in the Old Testament . ) |
| 26 | The conclusions arrived at in the brief analysis which follows have necessarily , therefore , to be seen as no more than tentative and hesitant deductions . |
| 27 | While it is certainly necessary to chart shifts in women 's position in literature and society through history , it is crudely ahistorical to judge writers of the past exclusively through terms arrived at in the late twentieth century . |
| 28 | Although two thirds of the children born out of wedlock are registered by both parents , and illegitimacy is on the increase , we in Britain have not reached the position arrived at in Sweden where , since I January 1988 , partners who live together outside marriage are afforded the same legal rights as those who are married . |
| 29 | These were , of course , arrived at in discussion with the Smiths . |
| 30 | Recognising the sheer impossibility of providing an adequate number of conversion courses of the 52 week full-time mode , the UKCC has outlined a more flexible approach to the problem by allowing for appropriate course content arrived at in ways outlined by PS & D/88/05 . |