Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 2 | It climbed vertically above the field , retracing its earlier journey , until it seemed to hang suspended at the precise point where it had rested a moment ago . |
| 3 | His Heswall colleague , Ian Spencer , is the only player from Merseyside to have succeeded at the pre-qualifying stage for the school and will be in France next week . |
| 4 | It appeared to have arrived at the right time . |
| 5 | Wickham asked whether MacQuillan appeared to have eaten at the Black Friar and she said yes , because both men had plates of food in front of them . |
| 6 | The EC sought co-operation against drug traffickers , and Mexico was reported to have inserted at the last minute a formula to safeguard its national jurisdiction in this area . |
| 7 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 8 | Even those one would expect to have rejoiced at the religious revival which Lewis 's popularity heralded and to a certain degree inspired could only bring themselves to sneer . |