Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 2 | Though Bebeto and Mauro Silva are the biggest stars , the whole team , the president and the trainer , are all gently mobbed at every public appearance . |
| 3 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 4 | As exemplified by the year two data shown in Table III , fewer patients with ileal and caecal inflammation or ileal inflammation alone grew at a subnormal velocity . |
| 5 | And also we think they sensibly looked at the actual provision of sites in areas which have proved popular for employment and which do not compromise environmental objectives . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's altogether too much said at the Black Lion , ’ Mrs Yardley said darkly . |
| 7 | The prevalence of a state is defined as the proportion of a population so categorized at a given point of time regardless of when those affected entered the state . |
| 8 | The strip of mirror suddenly flashed at a struck match . |
| 9 | The pervading fog enclosed the group , and the world outside seemed at a silent standstill . |
| 10 | Night fell , and after walking a few more miles down country roads , they finally arrived at an old house standing alone by a river . |
| 11 | Yes , just happened at the wrong time . |
| 12 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 13 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 14 | In October 1967 , when he was manager of Chelsea he was suspended by the English FA for 28 days for alleged misconduct during a friendly match in Bermuda , where he persistently swore at a black referee . |
| 15 | The Heath government fell in 1974 and the Box largely fell at the same time . |
| 16 | On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave . |
| 17 | The Trap somehow appeared at the easiest end of the HVS graded list ; it should be at the top ! |
| 18 | However , Brownie Helper 's husband would act as chauffeur , so not being able to think of more excludes , I duly arrived at the appointed hour , to find a welcoming party of six little girls , all anxious to fetch and carry equipment . |
| 19 | Smiling , she wondered whether he ever moved at a normal pace . |
| 20 | A HOME OFFICE minister yesterday intervened at the last minute to delay a Kurdish refugee being flown back to Turkey . |
| 21 | As we saw earlier the successful candidates are those who can muster a quota of votes , the same for all of them however great the disparity in the number of votes they respectively received at the first count . |
| 22 | Henry always looked at the black side of everything . |
| 23 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 24 | He always stayed at a high-class hotel on trips abroad . |
| 25 | Corbett secretly marvelled at the cool composure of his opponent . |
| 26 | Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds . |
| 27 | Teesside Crown Court heard how Crook , 19 , and Davies , 21 , who both lived at the nine storey tower block , made a complete mess of the home improvements they were trying to do . |
| 28 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |
| 29 | Andy Culshaw , the other trumpeter , studied at the Birmingham School of Music , while tubist Richard Sandland hails from Tamworth and also studied at the Royal College of Music . |
| 30 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |