Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me .
5 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 .
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