Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
| 2 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 3 | Now they claim they only signed at the suggestion of Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell — and the buck passes on . |
| 4 | Shopwatch only started at the beginning of the year but is already proving effective deterring some casual shoplifters . |
| 5 | And then , when she only stared at the car without responding , he added , ‘ I said it was a matter of timing . |
| 6 | In our model experiments , 29% of approaching females and 20% of approaching males performed a sexual display , other individuals merely looked at the model before departing . |
| 7 | He was 64 — and too late : Boswell had already told Lady Macleod , therefore Johnson could not avoid the embarrassment he obviously felt at the prospect of congratulations . |
| 8 | A note duly came at the end of September , hurtful in its brevity , frustrating in its lack of information : — thank you for the money sister which is put to good use your son being in need of shoes and all manner of apparel since he grows apace . |
| 9 | When I finally moved at the end of September , it was an enormous step in my life . |
| 10 | Cells were washed twice in Eagle 's minimum essential medium containing 1 mg/ml bovine serum albumin and 20 mmol/l hidsoxyethylpiperazine-ethanesulphonic acid ( HEPES ) and then finally resuspended at a concentration of 1.5×10 cells/ml in the same medium to which 0.1 mmol/l 3-isobutyl-1-methyl xanthine ( IBMX ) had been added . |
| 11 | The origins of this transformation may be traced back into the late 19th century but the upheaval finally came at the time of Vietnam , flower-power and the campus revolutions . |
| 12 | He finally arrived at a compromise with her , which was that he could have three independent , non-civil servant , advisers . |
| 13 | We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’ |
| 14 | Baldwin finally arrived at the Palace at 3.00 p.m . |
| 15 | We finally arrived at an event of which the adult Sylvia had no recollection whatsoever , but which to the baby must have been dramatically traumatic . |
| 16 | Karen , who had been warned before she came to Ireland that some things in the household were extremely pukka , nevertheless marvelled at the ease with which Jessica changed her plans , and marvelled at her attitude . |
| 17 | However , even Iran 's interest in CENTO dwindled in the 1970s and the Pact finally collapsed at the end of the decade when both Iran and Pakistan withdrew . |
| 18 | He brought with him a bottle of his own herbal remedy for fevers and scarcely looked at the baby before worrying about his fee . |
| 19 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
| 20 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |
| 21 | There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals . |
| 22 | The brilliant beams of their torches were like searchlights , swinging wildly for a second , until they finally converged at the back of a container with its door ripped open and lying at a crazy angle . |
| 23 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
| 24 | For example , the Treasury 9¾ per cent stock 2002 instanced above stood at a price of £103 ( £103.09375 ) at the close of business on Friday 28 February , 1992 when the running yield could be derived as follows : |
| 25 | Some 400 members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) yesterday demonstrated at the scene of Friday 's killings . |
| 26 | PEKING yesterday bristled at a decision by Hong Kong to allow a top Chinese swimmer , Yang Yang , who sought political asylum in the West , to travel to the United States . |
| 27 | Unlike most catalogues today , the vegetables usually came at the front with similarly enticing but just as unbelievable pictures as we find in today 's catalogues . |
| 28 | He repeats one he once told at an audition for a right-on theatre company . |
| 29 | Totally deafened at the age of seven , he has written : " My education , for what it is worth , was at Dr William Stainer 's private school , first at Finsbury Park and afterwards at Highgate . |
| 30 | It would seem obvious that at least some of those practitioners had not in fact vanished at all , but still existed at the time of the Crusades . |