Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A photographic memory enabled him to avoid the obvious suspicions which Special Branch officers noting the proceedings obviously fell under at such meetings . |
| 2 | The towns which thus sprung up at some railway centres are examples of the way in which individuality was lost , and lately the housing estate has spread a new uniformity even more widely over the country . |
| 3 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 4 | In Faye 's first painting , she had turned out so wraithlike and ethereal that she had secretly weighed herself on Faye 's bathroom scales to make sure she still came in at fifty-three kilograms . |
| 5 | Mr. Gilbert deliberately hung around at closing time to give the three men a chance to go away . |
| 6 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 7 | ‘ She never came back at all while Dad was alive . |