Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oars dipped unhurriedly in the calm water , and when the boat eventually arrived at the shore there was a further infuriating delay before the procession formed up and began making its way round the harbour to Ballingolin . |
| 2 | A police car finally arrived at the scene and officers spoke to the motorist . |
| 3 | His mind usually stayed at the level of gossip and anecdote but not always . |
| 4 | It was not difficult for Lewis to find his way to the Kemps ' home in Cherwell Lodge , the ground-floor flat on the extreme right of the three-storey building , since it was the only window in the whole street , let alone the block of flats , wherein electric light still blazed at a quarter to one that morning . |
| 5 | More ominously , the well-dressed young stranger always appeared at the tavern around the same time the mysterious woman and her page were about to leave . |
| 6 | From 1900 to 1913 European investment abroad ran at an average of £350 million a year , to the real benefit of the receiving countries . |
| 7 | This desperate cry for help eventually arrived at the parson 's house in Emminster . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The torchlight still flickered at the windows , and there were faint bursts of song filtering out . |
| 10 | Kaloghlian surprisingly appeared at the congress this weekend in an attempt to regain his seat . |
| 11 | The Committee then looked at the approach taken in Victoria , Australia , where the relevant statute lists special factors which will convert an indecent assault into an aggravated one . |
| 12 | Frederica too looked at the motorbike and remembered her sanguinary defloration . |
| 13 | Though the firms eventually chose America 's General Dynamics ( having had their second choice , McDonnell Douglas , and their first choice , going it alone , overruled by the Japanese government ) , the group also looked at the Panavia Tornado , the Anglo-American Harrier it and the Swedish Gripen . |
| 14 | The Marshal only stared at the warrant , his great eyes bulging more than ever . |
| 15 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 16 | ( The court also looked at the methodology and decided that the expert had been right about it anyway . ) |
| 17 | He was not vain , but he was quietly proud of his literary achievements and that pride sometimes showed at the edges . |
| 18 | It was not the existence of the risk which mattered , so much as ( a ) the degree to which it enhanced the prejudice already created by the great publicity which all these matters had attracted in Hong Kong during the preceding years , and ( b ) the degree to which this additional risk could be neutralised by the trial judge when the B.M.F.L. prosecution eventually arrived at a hearing : see Reg. v. Kray ( 1969 ) 53 Cr.App.R. 412 . |
| 19 | When the unpleasant severed object finally arrived at the hospital a nurse said brightly , normally one would , fingers crossed ! |
| 20 | The train still stood at the platform ; and a group of Post Office workers were lobbing a stack of bulging mail-bags into the guard 's van . |
| 21 | The owner always stayed at the back with his mongrel at his feet , unless one called him out , and paid no attention to potential customers . |
| 22 | Underlying all this is a more fundamental problem , during the heady nineteen eighties , the British home owner positively salivated at the idea of the monthly advance in the so called value of his or her property . |
| 23 | Keegan duly appeared at the press conference to extol his new club and his sponsors , despite the fact he was known not to drink the product himself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The man still stared at the water , then suddenly he dropped to his haunches , squatting like the children did sometimes at play when the ground was too wet to sit . |
| 26 | Parliament has now recognised that local authorities should be left to judge for themselves what local legislation is desirable , but in a tidying-up process all powers under local Acts in force on 1st April 1974 which were not preserved by subsequent general or local legislation automatically expired at the end of 1984 . |
| 27 | Apocalypse Now appeared at a time when the political climate in America was shifting to the right , resulting in Reagan 's victory in the 1980 presidential elections . |
| 28 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
| 29 | His reign thus began at a moment when , as a result of defeat and financial stress , the difficulties which now faced the monarchy were beginning to be all too visible . |
| 30 | The ILP Guild of Youth also collapsed at the beginning of the war , the NAC feeling that " members of the Guild should function through the Party " . |