Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virtually nothing is known of Freeman 's early years ; he shrouded his early life in great mystery and even the details of his secondary schooling — which apparently took place at a boarding-school in north London — remained unknown to his closest relatives . |
| 2 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 3 | Learned professional societies , on the whole , only gave instruction at the request of the users . |
| 4 | Worst of all , some sadist of a landscape designer had slapped down Dancer 's stick-and-ball field right next to her house , so she not only had fairies at the bottom of her garden , but also a microcosm of Rutshire Polo Club . |
| 5 | Consolation came when Ernie Coleman finally joined Arsenal at the end of the season , for a fee of £6,000 . |
| 6 | A factory is sustained by the energy of its own functioning , the throb and whine of machinery , the clash of metal , the unceasing motion of the assembly lines , the ebb and flow of workers changing shifts , the hiss of airbrakes and the growl of diesel engines from wagons delivering raw materials at one gate , taking away finished goods at the other . |
| 7 | The caucus thus gave continuity at the top throughout the development of the closure plan . |
| 8 | Then it just shot bullets at a tin can . |
| 9 | By virtue of her fluent Hebrew she once led prayers at a Passover feast of wealthy Moroccan Jews — the only one present who could read them in the absence of a rabbi . |
| 10 | But when I pushed open the gate into the yard on my return , I always saw Jean-Claude at the window . |
| 11 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
| 12 | It also reduced friction at the point of contact . |
| 13 | We also closed beds at the satellite rheumatology hospital — a subregional centre . |
| 14 | Jones often visited Lovelace at the castle and later at New Lodge in Windsor Forest , where Lovelace moved after her marriage to Lord Henry Beauclerk in June 1739 . |
| 15 | Asked whether he now regretted remarks at a press conference two weeks ago where he refused to rule out sabotage , he said : ‘ I certainly regret inaccurate press reports of my remarks . |
| 16 | Two young constables who joined the force just over a year ago expressed concern at a plan to judge police performance on the number of arrests . |
| 17 | He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution , then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh , where he graduated MD and LRCS in 1847 . |
| 18 | He then studied chemistry at the City and Guilds of London Institute under F. S. Kipping [ q.v. ] , who became his friend . |
| 19 | The areas enclosed in the south of the county were on average larger than those in the east , so it is likely that enclosure there took place at a time when conditions were more conducive to the practice . |
| 20 | The Senate then took offence at the picture of the grain merchants . |
| 21 | A meeting then took place at the border on Nov. 8 between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , first on the German side at Frankfurt an der Oder and then across the river at Slubice ( part of pre-1945 Frankfurt ) . |
| 22 | Johnston , who scored a superb goal in Tbilisi in the first leg , had an outstanding game , and he almost forced extra-time at the death . |
| 23 | People officially became adults at the age of twelve in Bible times , and at that age , or shortly after , their parents arranged who they would marry ! |
| 24 | Ben parked his newly acquired BMW at the roadside and hoped it would be there when he returned , reassuring himself that in this place of utter solitude car thieves were n't likely to creep out of the hedgerows with duplicate keys . |
| 25 | Purple and yellow crocuses were popping up all over the lawn , the hard winter outlines of shrubs and trees were blurred by new growth like the fuzz on an adolescent 's upper lip , even the rows of savagely pruned rosebushes at the front of the house , separated by concrete walkways like a cemetery of spider crabs buried upside-down , were shoving out shoots and buds . |
| 26 | ‘ And what they 've got is a legacy from the old days , all those little terraced cottages which never had boundaries at the back . |