Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had grubby overalls on , and caps with protective masks , through which each gang peered at the other . |
| 2 | For several weeks that fear remained at the back of our minds and we wondered what was behind the brief news bulletins which were issued , and whether the whole fateful adventure would be a success . |
| 3 | This change occurred at the beginning of the Paleozoic era starting with the Cambrian period , about 570 to 700 million years ago . |
| 4 | This was weighted with a large wooden tag charred at the end where Father Barnes had put it down too close to a gas flame . |
| 5 | Militant feminists pointed out that sexual antagonism lay at the heart of the suffrage struggle and could never be resolved within the discourse of political liberalism . |
| 6 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 7 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 8 | Another study looked at the consequences of family conflict and a ‘ new wave of teenage girls breaking away ’ ( Willans , 1976 ) . |
| 9 | A ghostly figure hovered at the end of the tunnel . |
| 10 | But The Waterline 's absorbing issue , forgiveness of oneself and others , disappears in the three narratives overcrowded with portent and incident , as if clear thinking quailed at the messiness of the world . |
| 11 | ASENIOR police officer and his wife and two children escaped injury yesterday after a bomb containing up to 10lb of high explosive exploded at the back of their bungalow in Drumbo , south of Belfast . |
| 12 | A further recount began at the end of May . |
| 13 | We must hope it was a harbinger that the one riotously funny scene occurred at the end of the first episode , with Europe through . |
| 14 | The French boy glanced at the man for a moment , then shrugged . |
| 15 | Forster 's grotesque rubber mask nodded at the inferno . |
| 16 | Quite a surprise regarding this name occurred at the end of the last war . |
| 17 | Old Red frowned at the floor . |
| 18 | What the hon. Gentleman said at the beginning of his question was entirely wrong . |
| 19 | The Labour Government neglected and cut resources for law and order , and the right hon. Gentleman sat at the table agreeing to those cuts . |
| 20 | A blackshawled French woman appeared at the window and rapped on it . |
| 21 | This woman arrived at the refuge early one summer evening in 1982 after a row over the dinner . |
| 22 | Here , the largest of the towns considered in this volume grew at the centre of an extensive pottery industry which came to supply widespread military and civilian markets . |
| 23 | Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 24 | But this performance sagged at the point where it should have taken off , the Dance Song . |
| 25 | It is northing more than another attack aimed at the trade unions under the government 's Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill , and takes absolutely no account of the additional hardship it will impose on our members . |
| 26 | A faint smile grew across her face an while the old man sipped at the soup she gradually became the proud owner of a huge , cunning grin . |
| 27 | He carried Wynne-Jones on his back ; the old man beat at the thorns with his stick , one arm held tightly around his son 's neck . |
| 28 | Inside were a couple of benches , and several villagers were sitting patiently waiting for him , while an old man sat at the door smoking a smelly little pipe . |
| 29 | The French monarchy reciprocated at the deaths of their Plantagenet kinsmen and women . |
| 30 | The Abyssinian maid groped at the wall and switched on the light . |