Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ill man , he returned to his brother James 's farm , where he died at the early age of forty-seven , 19 October 1799 . |
| 2 | He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 . |
| 3 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 4 | If the leaders of Anti-Racist Alliance want to build up an effective anti-racist movement , they should desist from the kind of stupid sectarianism that I witnessed at the recent March for Justice in the London borough of Newham . |
| 5 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 6 | Once I ran at a fair in the noise |
| 7 | Theda could barely repress a sigh of relief , although she wondered at the strange way the woman spoke . |
| 8 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 9 | I think it 's the reconciliation based on perhaps some of the problems that we had at the lost last stock take which are accelerated You know probably the odd miscount here and there this time . |
| 10 | President Chiluba has our best wishes to help him get on with the job ; we shall do our best to assist him , because the election was a fine example of the principles that we endorsed at the recent Heads of Government meeting in Harare . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 12 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 13 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 14 | The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop . |
| 15 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 16 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 17 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 18 | Steve has got one that he played at the last S L Os meeting , it lasts about four minutes it 's as long as the song he ai n't heavy he 's my brother . |
| 19 | The Gesta clearly states ( though very briefly ) that he studied at the great law university of Bologna . |
| 20 | Though widely reported , it is uncertain whether on 10 September Moltke , in fact , informed the Kaiser , ‘ Majesty , we have lost the war ’ ; if so , it showed a flash of strategic prescience that he displayed at no other moment in his military career . |
| 21 | The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial . |
| 22 | Chance evidence from one chronicle records that he stayed at the Benedictine abbey of Andres in the Pas de Calais on his way before crossing the Channel . |
| 23 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 24 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
| 25 | Mala and I stared at the enlarging disc that appeared on other screens after Posi revolved the ship to bring the lateral ceptors to bear . |
| 26 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 27 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
| 28 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 29 | Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did |
| 30 | Of a sudden Aggie rose from the table and left the room , and the smile slid slowly from Millie 's face and she looked at the funny young man , as she thought of him , and said , ‘ Is she vexed ? ’ |