Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Actually , I got scholarships at both universities . " |
| 2 | I left school at fifteen years of age . |
| 3 | And , when she reached the wireless office , men who might resent her being there and fiends who transmitted Morse at devilish speeds … |
| 4 | Other studies have shown worse school progress in children who stopped diet at 6 years of age compared with children who continued treatment . |
| 5 | Other families who provided JPs at different times , such as the Harcourts and the Hampdens , also feature among the Stonors ' correspondents ( 24 , i , facing 7 , 69–70 , 113–14 , 151 , ii , 57–8 ) . |
| 6 | There was one teacher employed in the prison , who undertook education at all levels from basic literacy to assisting with open university degrees . |
| 7 | Willie Watson , 211 appearances for Sunderland and later player/manager at Halifax Town , was one of the few who represented England at both sports . |
| 8 | As she slammed the car door she saw curtains at lighted windows twitching up and down the road . |
| 9 | In his book ‘ More than a Match : A Player 's Story ’ ( Stanley Paul Pounds 14.99 ) , published yesterday , Leeds striker Chapman , who viewed Clough at close quarters when he was at the City Ground , examines the alternatives . |
| 10 | Of the three German principals , the Crown Prince was now all for ending the whole Verdun offensive ; Falkenhayn had lost interest and could be wafted either way by the prevailing wind ; there remained only Knobelsdorf , the most subordinate of the three , who in his conversion to Falkenhayn 's ‘ bleeding white ’ dogma had become more Catholic than the Pope , and who supported continuation at all costs . |
| 11 | 29 patients who had CTs at local hospitals had to be re-examined by CT ( 25 ) or ultrasonography ( 4 ) at the National Radium Hospital , which led to major alteration of management in 4 . |
| 12 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 13 | We dropped people at outlying villages . |
| 14 | We stood people at various locations over the distance to establish a scale reference . |
| 15 | They saw conditions at all levels of education worsening . |
| 16 | A visit was made to the where they saw rumens at close quarters . |
| 17 | In this way the Psalms were read through every twenty-four hours and the Gospels once a week , so that , as Bishop Hacket noticed , ‘ there was no intermission day nor night … they kept sentinel at all hours and seasons to expect the second coming of the Lord Jesus ’ . |
| 18 | In those times people worshipped according to the cycles of nature ; they held rituals at key points of the year , and in the minds of the Charismatics they are very much associated with things like standing stones . |
| 19 | On descent he met Wanda at 8,300 metres and helped her arrange a bivouac . |
| 20 | A humourous man with a face which might have developed in later age into the kind described as craggy , he threw jokes at many questions , answered others with disarming bluntness . |
| 21 | Sixty nuclear opposition groups from all over the country supported the Union of Concerned Scientists when it presented evidence at official hearings about weaknesses in the emergency cooling systems designed to stop a reactor overheating . |
| 22 | What what took place at these meetings ? |