Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunday Life has learned that detectives had received a number of complaints against the businessmen after cheques bounced at banks . |
| 2 | They surfaced at intervals , burned hot for a time and then slipped back underground , to be stored again in layers of social and religious memory . |
| 3 | Blood pressures rose at reports that US TV film of the Coronation in 1953 had been punctuated by ads featuring a chim-panzee , J Fred Muggs . |
| 4 | As the world warmed , the global sea level rose at rates which certainly were without parallel in the last 100,000 years , but until this month no continuous record of this sea-level change had been available to scientists . |
| 5 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 6 | Cimetidine used at concentrations from 10 - 5 to 10 -10 M had no significant effect on the basal growth of MKN45 , MKN45G , C170 , and LoVo cells as assessed by both 7 5 [ Se ] selenomethionine uptake and direct cell counts ( data not shown ) . |
| 7 | Several R.A.F. planes crashed at locations throughout the county but it was three years until the next disaster brought death and destruction to a quiet residential street in Prestwick . |
| 8 | The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! ) |
| 9 | These funds , probably amounting in all to something just over £100,000 , were accumulated for Edward 's eventual resumption of the crusade , but from them meanwhile he drew at intervals according to his need : for example , in 1283 he temporarily seized £40,000 of the sexennial tenth . |
| 10 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 11 | The council will provide emergency shelter for anyone evacuated at schools , village halls or community centres , and will help co-ordinate relief and clear-up operations . |
| 12 | She stopped at Barbs 's house and pushed open the gate . |
| 13 | No doubt they excelled at things in which indolent societies specialize ; no doubt their basketwork became rococo , their erotic skills more gymnastical , their use of crushed leaves to induce stupefying trances increasingly efficient . |
| 14 | At school , both he and his elder brother ( Robert Victor ) excelled at sports ; in 1919 Eric set a new ( and still unbroken ) school record of 10.2 seconds for the 100 yards . |
| 15 | Hunt , born in Surrey in 1947 , excelled at sports at his public school , Wellington College , playing tennis at junior Wimbledon . |
| 16 | The bellends are long and low and though they give good shape for wind deflection I found at times I needed a little more height when cooking . |
| 17 | Now Dr A. Noyan and colleagues from Hacettepe University in Ankara have discovered that the lymph nodes ( small swellings ) found at intervals along the lymph vessels act as tiny hearts , pumping lymph up from the extremities of the body towards the neck , where it enters the venous circulation ( Journal of Muscle Research and Ceil Motility , vol 4 , p 103 ) . |
| 18 | In the second instance , in spite of the presence of the intercalating chromophore and linker chain , both of which lead to an increase in binding site size , the blockages induced by the tethered complexes are broadly similar to those caused by cisplatin , 7 , PtenCl 2 , 1 , and PtpropCl 2 , 4 as most high intensity blockages occurred at runs of two or more G's on the template strand . |
| 19 | The most dramatic outward sign of this change , according to Le Roy Ladurie , was a series of peasant rebellions which occurred at intervals throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 20 | Nearly all the accidents in Darlington occurred at junctions , when cyclists were waiting to set off or just starting to pedal . |
| 21 | Nearly all the accidents in Darlington occurred at junctions where cyclists were waiting to set off , or just starting to pedal , said Mr Hillcoat . |
| 22 | In a sense it is a personal keeping of the ‘ minutes ’ of what occurred at conferences or in battles which will remind the writer what happened at a precise time in the course of events . |
| 23 | First , as will be demonstrated below , he tends to underplay the severity of the violence which occurred at places like Grunwick and Hadfields during a period supposedly devoid of such conflict . |
| 24 | Contemporaries believed that the riots which occurred at elections were frequently caused by " hired gangs " employed by one of the parties to prevent their opponents ' supporters from coming to the poll . |
| 25 | In the same year I was elected as president of the Junior Common Room , and presided at debates and business sessions of the student body . |
| 26 | Because of his standing in the village he ventured at times to talk in a way which later proved disastrous about his anti-Fascist feelings . |
| 27 | After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research . |
| 28 | For four years , she camped at friends . |
| 29 | Clearly demonstrated the complexity of the issues in a well-argued presentation which suffered at times from being a little unfocussed . |
| 30 | We berthed at Shields . |