Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This occurred at the main dispensing chemist in Wirral 's largest township : |
| 2 | But this struck at the very heart of what Laura was hoping to achieve and she quashed the suggestion with ferocity . |
| 3 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 4 | The Non-Proliferation Treaty , however , was the last occasion when the British sat at the top table to discuss nuclear questions with the superpowers . |
| 5 | Ranges will be offered up to three Greens for virtually the same price as one , with each installed at the required distance . |
| 6 | It all came at the right time , she said , at exactly the right time . |
| 7 | Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself . |
| 8 | They all looked at the dark square and saw that it was hardly a manhole , more of a childhole . |
| 9 | They all looked at the spreading crystal world . |
| 10 | Lancaster , Preston , where the Old Pretender 's advance had foundered , and which his son reached on 26 November , and Wigan all fell at the mere approach of the all-conquering young prince . |
| 11 | The first 50 received at the above address will each receive a free tennis elbow support . |
| 12 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |
| 13 | The first happened at the local cinema . |
| 14 | As the leader of the Romantic school of young French painters , Bonington took London by storm when he first exhibited at the British Institution in 1826 . |
| 15 | When Bathsheba first appeared at the weekly Casterbridge market , where farmers bought and sold their wheat and animals , she caused a sensation . |
| 16 | Yesterday , the management threatened to issue dismissal notices to the 300 out of the 400 workforce , and about 200 demonstrated at the locked factory gates in an attempt to return to work . |
| 17 | Einstein 's general theory of relativity , on its own , predicted that space-time began at the big bang singularity and would come to an end either at the big crunch singularity ( if the whole universe recollapsed ) , or at a singularity inside a black hole ( if a local region , such as a star , were to collapse ) . |
| 18 | At Oxford he had written poems of considerable competence , most of them religious but a handful presumably composed with Dolben in mind ; only one or two hinted at the great originality he was to display in maturity . |
| 19 | WavePhore Inc unveiled at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention its new proprietary high speed TVT1 data wireless transmitter . |
| 20 | They both stared at the young woman before them , sipping now at a brandy and port . |