Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill .
2 Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London .
3 Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme .
4 The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers .
5 They 'll shatter if Suragai pulls it at full stretch . ’
6 The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function .
7 As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door .
8 Maggie almost cringed at the outright challenge but Candace said nothing at all .
9 Thereafter things improved ; we got several thousand corners while Arse got none at all .
10 As Kenny and Kenny suggest , the " position of the landlord is now very much strengthened " and the " question is whether licences have anything at all to offer to the landlord looking for an income from his residential property . "
11 Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions .
12 Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office .
13 His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all .
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