Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , Paris was saved because Galliéni recognized that the moment had come to strike at the Germans when Kluck , wheeling northeast of the city , exposed his right flank to the Sixth Army . |
| 2 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 3 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 4 | But the woman 's insults rankled , as did her earlier insolence — for her contemptuous glance had raked Theda 's person when she had dared to ask at the Feathers for a room for the night . |
| 5 | The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car . |
| 6 | At first he had tried to look at the newspapers regularly to search for job vacancies and had sent application forms to prospective employers . |
| 7 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |