Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 2 | When the CEGB 's drilling rigs arrived at one particular farm , their way was firmly blocked and a local woman and her daughter immediately chained themselves to the equipment . |
| 3 | The six senior classes went at 5 minute intervals ( each followed a minute later by a corresponding domestic class ) , the men 's K2s going first . |
| 4 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |
| 5 | In muscles receiving delayed innervation , or muscles innervated at aberrant synaptic sites , both receptor clustering and receptor synthesis are delayed or redirected , consistent with the new pattern of innervation . |
| 6 | These forces intersected at that crucial site for modern ideology , the family , which they both helped to build and sustain . |
| 7 | Since many kinds of trilobites co-existed at any one time they were probably occupying different ecological niches , behaving in different ways , corresponding with the wide variation in shape that they show . |
| 8 | Just as men had at some remote date in the past surrendered some of their individual rights to a sovereign and thus created civil society , so now each State must surrender some of its sovereignty to a supranational authority . |
| 9 | To the north of Joseph , two companies of cavalry and one of Crow scouts waited at Mammoth Hot Springs ; General George Crook had deployed five cavalry companies on Shoshoni River and ten 5th Cavalry companies on Wind River to the east and south-east respectively ; Colonel Nelson ‘ Bearcoat ’ Miles lurked at Fort Keogh ; and in the north-east Colonel S.D. Sturgis ' six 7th Cavalry companies , accompanied by Crow scouts , waited on Clark 's Fork . |
| 10 | Someone had applied for planning permission to knock down an old cow-byre in his garden and build a bungalow ; the environmentalists raged at this further desecration , the laissez-faire element saw no reason why people should n't do what they wished with their own . |