Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABA light heavyweight champion Anthony Todd , of Darlington , travels to the second of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments in Berck sur Mer hoping he 'll follow in the footsteps of Scarborough 's Paul Ingle , who qualified for Barcelona at the previous tournament in Denmark . |
| 2 | Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’ |
| 3 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 4 | On the Saturday evening , before seeing Law on the following morning , he dined with Davidson at the Argentine Club and informed him that he would ‘ rather take a single ticket to Siberia than become Prime Minister ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Our aim has been to show that food can be fun , ’ said Paul who trained with Jeanne at the famed Roux brothers ' Le Gavroche restaurant in London . |
| 6 | Special Forces men burst through the front door of The Anabaptist Reform Church , and gaped in horror at the unholy tableau spread out before them . |
| 7 | Mary McKenna , playing in the tournament for the 25th year , could have made it a tie by winning the bottom match but she lost the 15th and 16th to go two down , won the 17th with a big birdie putt and salvaged a half when her opponent , Fiona McKay drove into bushes at the 18th . |
| 8 | Mahathir 's proposal was one of a number of plans for enhanced intra-ASEAN economic co-operation which came under discussion at the 24th annual meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers held in Malaysia in July 1991 [ see p. 38345-46 ] . |
| 9 | The ‘ superego ’ , however , is a censoring , evaluating , mechanism , one instilled into children at an early age . |
| 10 | The other holds that the cosmos has been generated and may be destroyed , and that men similarly first came into existence at a definite time . |
| 11 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 12 | Section I of the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 came into effect at the same time . |
| 13 | She squinted in bewilderment at the ten or so boarders who had formed her little band of helpers . |
| 14 | The classic remark came from Abrams at the public hearings : ‘ I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I had no idea about . ’ |
| 15 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 16 | An inspector who came to Durham at the same time as myself to read Law and the Sociology of Law , found the latter course required a move to concepts outside normal police experience . |
| 17 | The Wootton and Widgery proposals came to hand at the right time ; there were pressures from bodies such as the Magistrates ' Association and the Justices ' Clerks ; while the prospect of legislation prompted a clearing out of the pigeon holes of Whitehall . |
| 18 | Niven came to grief at the eighth fence on Flight Hill and had his left arm in a sling when he left the course by ambulance . |
| 19 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
| 20 | After the meal , someone suggested a walk on Hampstead Heath , and that turned into tea at a small patisserie close to where Loretta had parked her car . |
| 21 | The two senior residents frowned in unison at the rising temperature chart . |
| 22 | The major slick , and the only one posing a serious threat to wildlife , had emanated from the Mina al-Ahmadi terminal in Kuwait , and from oil storage tanks ruptured in combat at the Saudi border town of Khafji ; smaller slicks came from Iraq 's Mina al-Bakr terminal and facilities around Bubiyan Island . |
| 23 | Then he holed from 20ft at the long second and six feet at the fifth and sixth to maintain his record of not having suffered a failure in Europe since the Cannes Open two years ago . |
| 24 | She sighed in delight at the delicious possibilities for revenge … |
| 25 | Momper 's " red-green " alliance had collapsed on Nov. 15 when the AL withdrew in protest at the violent eviction by 3,000 police of several hundred ( mainly west Berliner ) squatters from 13 apartment buildings in the Friedrichshain district of east Berlin the previous day ; 300 people were arrested and over 100 injured in the clashes . |
| 26 | The Palestinians were kept bound and blindfolded in buses at the Lebanese border for some 20 hours while Israeli civil rights lawyers tried to win a court order to halt the deportations . |
| 27 | Anyway , ’ he concluded morosely , ‘ it was established that he arrived in Kinghorn at the expected time . ’ |
| 28 | This absence of news made me all the more careful , and an hour after leaving camp I arrived without mishap at an open glade near the top of the hill , within a hundred yards of the forest road . |
| 29 | The troll was out to lunch , the sky did not fall in and the three pals arrived without mishap at the Gruff 's house . |
| 30 | We got into pot at the same time , we got into acid at the same time and then there was more smack around than pot , so we got into that . |