Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 2 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |
| 3 | However , the same block grant system was retained , and the GREA formulae tightened to produce at the local level deductions of grant for all levels of expenditure . |
| 4 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 5 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 6 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 7 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 8 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 9 | News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign . |
| 10 | Athelstan closed his eyes and breathed a prayer as he glimpsed the blue-black holes where the hungry ravens had pecked at the scrawny , whitening flesh . |
| 11 | The first batch of five coolies were flung face downward in the red dirt , and under the direction of the burly figure of Phat , half a dozen of his subordinates began lashing at the exposed soles of their bare feet . |
| 12 | By early Tuesday afternoon , however , pro-Noriega forces had arrived at the military command headquarters , where General Noriega was apparently being held , and the rebels surrendered . |
| 13 | Their Lordships refused to look at the internal workings of Parliament stating that if errors had occurred in the procedure for passing legislation then it was for Parliament alone to correct them . |
| 14 | To avoid the chaos that would arise if , for example , several users wanted to print at the same time , the resources of a network may be controlled by ‘ servers ’ . |
| 15 | Not every Merovingian queen was as forceful as Fredegund , and the sons of various queens or concubines did inherit at the same time . |
| 16 | The men had arrived at the empty farmhouse fifteen hours earlier , just as dusk was falling . |
| 17 | The verderers had arrived at the tumbled stones soon after the moon rose . |
| 18 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
| 19 | On International Women 's Day , over a hundred women arrived to protest at the male domination of the event : they wore white featureless masks inside the hall — to symbolize women 's invisibility-and , in men 's suits , held a mock inquiry outside . |
| 20 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |