Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Kaloghlian surprisingly appeared at the congress this weekend in an attempt to regain his seat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Frederica too looked at the motorbike and remembered her sanguinary defloration . |
| 12 | The Marshal only stared at the warrant , his great eyes bulging more than ever . |
| 13 | ( The court also looked at the methodology and decided that the expert had been right about it anyway . ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When the unpleasant severed object finally arrived at the hospital a nurse said brightly , normally one would , fingers crossed ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | That a deep-seated and all-embracing blood taboo unquestionably lay at the heart of so much of Jewish belief and ritual practice is clearly evidenced by the later ( Christian ) book of Hebrews which saw fit to characterize Judaism specifically as a covenant of blood , sanctified , purified and redeemed by the blood of cultic sacrifice : |
| 28 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 29 | After a successful return the crowd again got at the youth and Chapman decided to let him go , ‘ though it meant sacrificing a player who , I was convinced , had exceptional possibilities of development ’ . |
| 30 | A Roman treasure recently discovered at a building site at Ladenburg , is now on public display in the new Archäologische Landesmuseum , housed in a converted monastery of the former benedictine order of Petershausen , following conservation . |