Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involved beaming heartily at all newcomers to the carriage and exuding humour , warmth and trivial monologue . |
| 2 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 3 | Police declined to comment further at this stage and Mr Alec Chipstead , a chartered surveyor , was not available for questioning . ’ |
| 4 | The traffic began to move again at that point , though , and to Jessamy 's relief he had to give his attention to the road ahead . |
| 5 | They began working together at high school , and moved on to ‘ open-mike ’ nights at folk clubs in Atlanta , covering songs by Jackson Browne , Carole King and James Taylor . |
| 6 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
| 7 | So the Labour Party got united then at that time ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 10 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 11 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 12 | Elsewhere , the tree had grown randomly at lower elevations , and the nut was used for local consumption . |
| 13 | On the great northern coalfield they did not work underground after 1780 , although to some extent they continued to do so at some pits in Yorkshire , Lancashire and Cumberland . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Probably rose gardens had flourished here at one time . |
| 16 | Oblivious to the milling crush around them , they stood staring delightedly at each other . |