Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand there were those introduced by British or British trained educationists because they appeared at the time to represent the ‘ best ’ education ( though naturally criteria for judging quality varied widely ) . |
| 2 | Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence . |
| 3 | His words when we met at the start of the Championship kept coming back : ‘ Willie , I 'm going to win the Open for you this week . |
| 4 | His brain seemed to be malfunctioning — his emotions felt like torn rags as he stared at the theatre programme that sat on top of his desk . |
| 5 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 6 | What was the true intention of the parties when they arrived at the agreement pleaded by the defendants in para. 5 of the amended defence ? |
| 7 | The descriptions of their hallucinatory images as they lay at the foot of Lawrence 's grave are too visual and complicated to do justice to and are no longer relevant , anyway . |
| 8 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |
| 9 | Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo . |
| 10 | ‘ You could say that … ’ he began cautiously , and after that Kate ensured the conversation stayed firmly on business rails until they arrived at the hotel which the team used when testing in the south of France . |
| 11 | Like everyone else on holiday , he thought he had ‘ got away from it all ’ for a few days until he arrived at the famous White Horse Inn and was confronted by … fellow Fellow ( ! ) |
| 12 | The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent . |
| 13 | She hankered after her dancing days till she died at the age of ninety . |
| 14 | In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang . |
| 15 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 16 | They put on separate roadshows as they appeared at the same event for the first time since Mr Major 's statement in the House of Commons . |
| 17 | I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club . |
| 18 | Together with Simon , Piggy had always got different solutions for problems because he looked at the world scientifically . |
| 19 | The marketing team of the DIY company would probably discuss some of the following questions as they looked at the bar charts : |
| 20 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 21 | One answer to this could be that articulate Europeans , however much they differed , were formed by a common educational heritage and thought of themselves as Europeans when they looked at the rest of the world . |
| 22 | The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival . |
| 23 | When he left , we watched from the Met Office windows as she stood at the salute on the edge of the perimeter track , until his aircraft was out of sight . |
| 24 | There was a little wistfulness about these village girls when they looked at the rich convent girls in their expensive clothes . |
| 25 | Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting . |
| 26 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 27 | Ipuky sighed , flexing his hands as they lay at the edge of the table , and was silent for a long time . |
| 28 | It must , thought Fenella , snatching the spell off the wall and holding it between her hands as she stood at the silver door , waiting for an indication that the Robemaker had gone . |
| 29 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
| 30 | The BX 4x4 Estate , yesterday a safari vehicle , became today a Grand Tourer as we made our farewell circuit through picturesque villages and bustling market towns until we arrived at the old spa resort of Buxton , said to be the highest town in England , where we had , reluctantly , to admit that it was time to head for home . |