Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another doctor , Edward Spitzka , believed that an unwillingness to work at an appointed task was itself a symptom of masturbatory insanity . |
| 2 | The water car transferred at the same time was not numbered . |
| 3 | It looks like it 's going to be difficult to shrug this one off , picking at the racist scab was never going to do anyone any good , quiffy boy . |
| 4 | Maureen as an ambulance driver and Pat as a rescue man were badly needed , but Anne 's firewatching at a large store was less essential and it was decided that she would stay with her mother . |
| 5 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
| 6 | He helped her out when her father 's meeting at the Black Friar was raised . |
| 7 | Interestingly the clinical diagnosis of colonic carcinoma made at the first attendance was correct in four of five cases and incorrect in nine of 88 cases suggesting that clinical features are of help in this diagnosis . |
| 8 | The state of siege imposed at the same time was , however , extended by 30 days by a vote of the legislative assembly on Feb. 8 . |
| 9 | An attempt to look at the overall picture was made by the Royal Commission on Legal Services : its recommendations were widely criticised and largely ignored . |
| 10 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 11 | The first vessel to load at the new facility was the ‘ Secil Angola ’ which arrived on 27th April to load 3945 tonnes . |
| 12 | The first ship to discharge at the new facility was the S.S. Ebbrix , a small vessel owned by T. R. Rix & Sons Ltd. of Hull which arrived on 23rd August . |
| 13 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 14 | At sea the ship can appear enormous , and even minor landing craft travelling at a brisk trot were a hazard to canoes , for the minor LC 's blunt bow pushed out a small wall of water . |
| 15 | Opposition encountered at the two festivals were City of Portsmouth , Havant , Trojans , Winchester , Old Tauntonians , Blandford , Gosport , Hamble , Yateley and Bournemouth . |
| 16 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 17 | Jumping at the same event was the famous ski jumper Eddie ‘ The Eagle ’ Edwards . |
| 18 | But the thrill I felt at the strange beauty was swept away as I got out and the wind struck me . |
| 19 | This time , things proceeded in a more civilised manner and the arrangements concluded at the imperial conferences were enshrined in the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 of which provided , amongst many other things , that for the future , no Act of the imperial Parliament should extend to any of the six Dominions listed above unless it expressly stated that the Dominions in question had requested and consented to the |
| 20 | Always during this period the same paper was used , although a rumour that it would change at the next sitting was constantly promulgated by dealers who had once cheated , to discourage others from doing likewise . |
| 21 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 22 | The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 . |
| 23 | The surprise for well-fed French bureaucrats heading for a busy day paper shuffling at the European Commission was lightened only by the inclusion of croissants as a side course . |
| 24 | Communications arriving at the orderly room were largely turgid documents in ‘ Whitehallese ’ from the War Office . |
| 25 | The film playing at the local kinema was Chances , a war-time romance also starring Anthony Bushell and Rose Hobart . |
| 26 | The way his bullets plucked at the fat bag was slightly obscene . |
| 27 | A major problem that arose at an early stage was the reconciliation of the local authority 's requirements for one car-parking space per flat with the DoE 's refusal to fund a scheme in which the entire ground floor would be used for parking . |
| 28 | Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade . |
| 29 | During the rituals for initiation into each successive age-set the ‘ true ’ meanings of certain sacred objects are revealed and it transpires that the interpretations given at the previous stage were false or partial . |
| 30 | What I said at the last committee was I merely advised the committee that if they went ahead in this current financial year that the grant would not be available . |