Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | German civilians especially suffered mistreatment at the hands of the Red Army in the East , but there was little sympathy for them after six years of war . |
| 2 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 3 | The Duke of Wellington , both when ambassador in Paris and later as representative at the Congresses of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818 and Verona in 1822 , was enlisted in the campaign and in 1814–15 Clarkson and Macaulay , in 1818 Clarkson and in 1822 William Allen all spent time at the congresses meeting political leaders and arguing for defining the slave trade as piracy under international law . |
| 4 | His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips . |
| 5 | If witnesses have already given evidence at the magistrates ' court the Crown Prosecution Service might be persuaded to discuss the impression that they made . |
| 6 | I personally have always liked the one-hundred-per-cent aspect of life ; I have always enjoyed life at the extremes . |
| 7 | 3.5 With effect from carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 and thereafter to commence business at the Premises for the purpose permitted by the Lease |
| 8 | France , Germany and the UK also expressed concern at the courts ' verdicts . |
| 9 | Rugby , and in the Courage League at Kingsholm last night Gloucester narrowly avoided defeat at the hands of London Irish . |
| 10 | Both parliament and the bishops were intent on ensuring they would never again suffer humiliation at the hands of the Puritans as they had during the Civil War and its aftermath . |