Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a further achievement that delegates from these two , until recently hostile , camps could clash sharply in debate during the conference without acrimony , although black consciousness delegates from Natal threatened to walk out at one stage . |
| 2 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 3 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 4 | Cherry had floated home at five , having wowed them at Shuff 's and danced all night . |
| 5 | It was true that Mrs Maugham 's moral fervour had had slightly more edge in the days before she herself acquired a television set , but even now she managed to retain sufficient cause for indignation , and the quality of her feeling for Mrs Hanney had changed not at all , though her attacks had been somewhat restricted in scope . |
| 6 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 7 | It had disintegrated ( in despair , one assumed ) many years ago , but Dorothy continued to bawl furiously at passing vehicles and to write letters to the commanding officer of the local airbase , who returned each time the same duplicated reply of infinite courtesy and obscurity . |