Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 2 | All the animals began shouting at poor Anabelle . |
| 3 | It could limit or remove altogether certain rights presumed to exist at common law . |
| 4 | To keep clear of British radar and stay undetected , the bombers had to fly at low level and so never attained the necessary height . |
| 5 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 6 | The girls had looked at each other curiously and Antonia had trailed obediently after the older woman . |
| 7 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |
| 8 | No , both my sister-in-laws did play at one time for Scottish women 's football . |
| 9 | Fujimori had promised at that time that he would wipe out Sendero by the end of his mandate in 1995 . |
| 10 | It was strange that their paths had crossed at this crisis in all their lives . |
| 11 | However , since the presence of the deceased on the premises was in direct contravention of an express instruction issued by the brewery to their manager , the brewery were not liable ; his permission to remain on the premises had ceased at closing time , 10.30 p.m . |
| 12 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |
| 13 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 14 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |