Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
2 | We 'd started at the same time . |
3 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
4 | He arranged to return at the same time the next day to set about identifying the traitor in Tuwaithah . |
5 | They both began to speak at the same time , and Fen gestured to her to go first . |
6 | However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care . |
7 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
8 | As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it . |
9 | The only problem was , they were supposed to be on piece work , and it meant working at the same pace . |
10 | Not every Merovingian queen was as forceful as Fredegund , and the sons of various queens or concubines did inherit at the same time . |
11 | Diana Travers was n't a member of her birthday party but they did dine at the same restaurant , the Black Swan on the river at Cookham . |
12 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
13 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
14 | Behind the garden were several acres of rough pasture , which Mr Coleby had bought at the same time as he bought the strip of wasteland that linked the pasture to Champney Road . |
15 | A similar incident had occurred at the same spot ten days earlier , though nobody was hurt then . |
16 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
17 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
18 | Moreover , given the striking similarity between the seasons , octagonal arrangement from Chedworth and mosaic H from Woodchester ( Smith 1969 , 101 ) , it seems almost certain that the seasons mosaic was the product of craftsman who had worked at the latter site . |
19 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
20 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
21 | Marriage between a blood son and an adopted daughter who had nursed at the same breast would be incestuous , haram — forbidden . |
22 | To avoid the chaos that would arise if , for example , several users wanted to print at the same time , the resources of a network may be controlled by ‘ servers ’ . |