Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's wrong ? ’ asked his mother as the boy stood staring at the moving hand rail . |
| 3 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 4 | Late the following morning he had telephoned to inform her that he would be out of Taiwan for some days as a problem requiring his personal attention had arisen at the commercial recording studio he owned in Singapore . |
| 5 | A year earlier on Dec. 6 , 1988 , another bomb had exploded at the Free University , but no one claimed responsibility for the attacks . |
| 6 | This was checked by cDNA cloning and sequencing of the 3' end of the transcript , which showed that polyadenylation had occurred at the wild type beta-tubulin polyadenylation site ( position 1710 of the sequence in Kimmel et al ( 30 ) ; data not shown ) . |
| 7 | The new possibilities of sound had been suggested by the great success of that ‘ gabby ’ medium the radio which was now helping to give American actuality a new urgency and also by the Broadway stage where the great success of Hecht and MacArthur 's The Front Page had hinted at the dramatic possibilities of ordinary everyday dialogue . |
| 8 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 9 | Her father had lived at the Old Parsonage at Wouldham and had 10 children . |
| 10 | I watched as he sat next to him , and whispered something into his ear , the small man cringed slightly and looked as the middle aged woman had done at the tattered ‘ Summer Sun ’ adverts . |
| 11 | But Denis had been totally unnerved by the complete lack of fear or even concern the Jew had displayed at the sudden sight of the gun . |
| 12 | Normally I would have sounded like a tongue-tied half-wit , but that evening my response appeared to hint at the inexpressible depths and nuances of my infinitely complex relationship with the city , together with a gentle rebuke to a question which was either fatuous or unanswerable . |
| 13 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 14 | In July 1986 windsurfers shocked the sailing world with the news that a board had travelled at the astonishing speed of 38.86 knots which is nearly 44 mph . |
| 15 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
| 16 | It was thus a new phenomenon when , during the winter and early spring of 1976 , outspoken resolutions on law and order began to arrive at the Presbyterian central office in Belfast from congregations and presbyteries across the country . |
| 17 | Several of the company had dined at the Adelphi Hotel and during the meal Dotty Blundell had sung her praises . |
| 18 | By this time two fire engines and a police van had arrived at the front entrance . |
| 19 | Her mother had sat at the crowded dinner table , drinking steadily and smoking and speculating aloud on why her daughter had married costive Brian . |
| 20 | Indeed , when the party had arrived at the bleak airport in Tehran in the middle of Ramadan , hoping to find a government delegation of equal weight , nobody was there to meet them . |