Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 2 | Schizophrenic Clive Wells was appearing at the Old Bailey accused of killing a 63-year-old man when he gave specialist nurses the slip . |
| 3 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
| 4 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
| 5 | Optimism over trading at the interim stage had proved unfounded , the group said yesterday . |
| 6 | The appeal hearing opened on May 15 , 1990 , with Demjanjuk 's lawyers arguing that he had been the victim of mistaken identity and that evidence presented at the original trial had been forged . |
| 7 | Maguire 's tee shot at the 161-yard second clattered into the trees behind the green . |
| 8 | His security could still be threatened at the one point left vulnerable . |
| 9 | Mr Patten , speaking at a fringe meeting at the tory conference made the remarks about Professor Tim Brighouse who ran schools in Oxfordshire for eleven years and now heads Birmingham 's education department . |
| 10 | It is important to note that if the pledge that the Labour party made at the last election had been carried through , dramatically less money would have been spent on health , for the reasons that my hon. Friend gave . |
| 11 | Several of the issues just outlined will be given special attention in our last chapter , which will look at the wider horizons opened up for Protestant theology by the ecumenical movement , the encounter with other faiths , and the development of science . |
| 12 | Can we then look at the reduced engine thrust erm this presumably would have a significant impact on combat performance , er why is there any change in the security situation that would warrant such a a relaxation ? |
| 13 | Microwave background detectors overlap in wavelength with millimetre waves and radio , but are designed specifically to look at the all-sky background emitted by gas soon after the big bang . |
| 14 | but Hans Segers at the other end had a busier first half as United piled forward … |
| 15 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |
| 16 | Interestingly , no clear footprint was observed at the RARE sequence found immediately upstream of footprint I ( shown in italics in Fig. 2B ) despite the fact that this sequence is able to bind retinoic acid receptors efficiently in vitro and that undifferentiated F9 cells contain retinoic acid receptors . |
| 17 | The meal was organised around the char which had been caught that afternoon , and Hope was touched at the extravagant praise lobbed his way for the provision of the excellent fish . |
| 18 | For example , the assumption of a single non-standard to standard continuum with RP located at the standard extremity led Macaulay in Glasgow to exclude from his analysis of the ( a ) variable items which belonged to the /a/ class of RP . |
| 19 | Madge looked at the four children clustered in the hallway . |
| 20 | Other systems also being tried at the same time included dehydration and injection techniques , the latter to be perfected by a surgeon called Ruysch ( 1665–1717 ) , Professor of Anatomy at Amsterdam . |
| 21 | It would be — if the deterioration in credit quality gnawing at the financial system had not reached this market too . |
| 22 | Some of the people sitting at the big table did not even raise their eyes . |
| 23 | Waqar at the other end continued to fling down roundarm yorkers , until tea , when both sides drew breath . |
| 24 | She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger . |
| 25 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |
| 26 | Audiences might have enjoyed reinterpretations , as when Odling at the same period suggested that phlogiston was an anticipation of the idea of chemical energy , rather than a non-substance . |
| 27 | The syllables heard at the two ears differed only in the initial consonant or only in the middle vowel . |
| 28 | You can indicate a specific start point for the list by supplying a start Client identifier ; if not , the list will start at the last Client created who was associated with the specified Product . |
| 29 | The night wind whipped his grey cropped hair , bit at his ears and cheeks and clawed at the grey robe wrapped round his body . |
| 30 | The need to build on that which had already been achieved at the primary stage appeared to be still undervalued . |