Example sentences of "[vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting and laughing , the family disembarked at a broken-down council estate covered in rubbish . |
| 2 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 3 | Libya proposed at a weekend Arab League meeting that Malta should receive the pair . |
| 4 | Yeltsin proposed at a meeting of his supporters on Nov. 28-29 that a pro-reform party or movement should be established , offering to participate in any such movement . |
| 5 | He had a nervous twitch which jerked at a muscle at the corner of his thin-lipped mouth and a malevolent stare . |
| 6 | Later we dined at a restaurant quite near the flat . ’ |
| 7 | Nick Cave surfaced at a time when post-punk 's handle on the workings of desire was diagrammatic and programmatic . |
| 8 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 9 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
| 10 | He took up a fork and prodded at a dish of small silvery fish marinated in olive oil , garlic and wine vinegar . |
| 11 | Ahead , to the left , tin roofs glinted on another plateau , which rose at a distance of eight miles away . |
| 12 | But in 1983–7 the real ( volume ) increase in funds first fell to zero , then fell absolutely , then rose at a rate lower than 1 per cent — that is less than the increasing trend to an ageing population required to sustain standards ( Kings Fund Institute , 1988 ; Owens and Glennerster , 1990 ) . |
| 13 | Revised figures show that Britain 's GDP rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the first quarter , up from the original estimate of 1.1% . |
| 14 | He kicked gently and rose at an angle towards the ceiling . |
| 15 | I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent . |
| 16 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
| 17 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 18 | She also helped at a Brownie Pack and was a volunteer mini-bus driver for children with special needs . |
| 19 | PEKING yesterday bristled at a decision by Hong Kong to allow a top Chinese swimmer , Yang Yang , who sought political asylum in the West , to travel to the United States . |
| 20 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 21 | I winced at a memory . |
| 22 | We all take drugs in some form or another , some are legal , you can buy them over the counter or your G P may prescribe , those are illegal , but still widely available and used at a price . |
| 23 | TWO Argentinian airmen who fought in the Falklands died yesterday when their plane crashed at a British airport . |
| 24 | June 1 : Piper L–4 Grasshopper destroyed when it crashed at a rodeo in Antioch , California . |
| 25 | Eight German tourists were among nine people killed aboard a light aircraft which crashed at a wildlife reserve in Kenya on Dec. 27 . |
| 26 | I think the turning point came when Chris Patten and Michael Heseltine joked at a press conference on Tuesday , with Mr Heseltine impersonating Neil Kinnock . |
| 27 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
| 28 | This enabled them once again to draw up a profile of those high-risk subjects who developed schizophrenia , which turned out to be similar to that reported at an earlier stage of the research . |
| 29 | It was impossible to hurry but they moved at a steady pace , pausing seldom . |
| 30 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |