Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 2 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that representatives of both Korea and Taiwan appeared at the public hearing on the issue to argue their case , Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to grant the request for certification . |
| 5 | In side-streets , special Stasi units and paddy-wagons waited at the ready . |
| 6 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 7 | Thérèse and Léonie stared at the steep wall of rock , at the grass and weeds at its foot . |
| 8 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 9 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 10 | Salt was making a meal of Jess 's shortcomings and Nancy stared at the new kitchen wench while her mother nodded in her easy-going way as she took off her shawl and recaptured her dropping hairpins . |
| 11 | Syl and Robert arrived at the same time and my mother poured them drinks . |
| 12 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 13 | They ran back to the house and Endill waited at the front door while his mother went to see who or what it was . |
| 14 | Rain and Oliver called at the flat but the fingerprints man had still not been . |
| 15 | Although it is doubtful that throughout the middle ages masters and servants ate at the same table , above and below the salt , as the Victorians supposed , the Gothic hall , entered directly from the outside world and accommodating every social rank , symbolized their ideal of social integration . |
| 16 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 17 | They sat in the car , and Juliet looked at the scribbled address on the envelope . |
| 18 | He walked out and Jenna looked at the closed door . |
| 19 | But in 1987 , countries including Germany and Britain cavilled at the combined costs of the three programmes — Ariane 5 , Columbus and Hermes . |
| 20 | I help myself to a drink and stare entranced at the bald patch in the shag-pile over by the door . |
| 21 | He and Bowyer sat at the high table , the Santerres and ourselves were treated as onlookers . |
| 22 | All telescopes and binoculars swivelled at the first shout of ‘ Merlin ! ’ and trained on the dashing raptor . |
| 23 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |
| 24 | Whether it was Millie 's infuriated strength that caused the woman 's grasp on the scissors to slacken , or that she changed her tactics and meant to direct the scissors towards the child 's face , could n't be known , but Millie grabbed at the open blades and , managing to twist them round , consciously or by accident drove one of the blades into the nun 's arm . |
| 25 | But Peter rose at the same moment . |
| 26 | The world No 1 's five-shot overnight lead was ripped apart by Australia 's Great White Shark , who fumbled a 3ft putt on the last green before Faldo won at the first extra hole . |
| 27 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 28 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 29 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 30 | Buchanan stood up , putting on his coat as Warden stood at the same time . |