Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavens , if her heart beat like this at the sight of Luke 's stepmother , how would it react when she came face to face again with him ? she thought despairingly . |
| 2 | A fairly serious outbreak occurred in 1928 at the workhouse . |
| 3 | The $489m loss for 1992 means that another 10,000 to 15,000 more jobs are going to have to go at the company as part of the continuing restructuring plan — its payroll actually rose to 252,000 at the end of 1992 from 240,000 in 1991 . |
| 4 | Shaun Devenney played off three at the beginning of last season and now plays to one , his year 's successes including the Leinster Boys ' and the Mark Ryder Under-22 championships and the Ulster Junior Foursomes . |
| 5 | Labour politicians , even those with a training in economics , were muddled about the issues , and generally seemed to favour the historic average cost principles , which also seemed to many at the time to be enshrined in the wording of the Act , which merely required the industry to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ . |
| 6 | Nicolaus matriculated in 1632 at the University of Rostock and graduated magister philosophiae in 1641 . |
| 7 | They returned in 1976 at the height of their fame to pack the King 's Hall , Balmoral . |
| 8 | They protested in vain at the invasion of what was to become 3-500,000 Chinese soldiers , stationed on the pretext of ’ liberating ’ Tibet from the ’ Feudal theocracy ’ enstated by the Dalai Lama and his followers . |
| 9 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 10 | My second marriage collapsed in 1991 at the beginning of my last year of vocational training — and I still had dependants . |
| 11 | Tabley House is the 3,000-acre estate near Knutsford , which he inherited in 1770 at the age of eight . |
| 12 | Queen Alexandra died in 1925 at the age of 81 . |
| 13 | Her older sister Catherine died in 1986 at the age of 104 and Dora , her younger sister last February , aged 95 . |
| 14 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 15 | She died in 1918 at the age of ninety-nine ; and she had a daughter , Dorothy , who married the explorer Henry Morton Stanley . |
| 16 | Another claim to fame by the village is that it is the birthplace of authoress Winifred Holtby , who sadly died in 1935 at the age of 37 and is buried in the churchyard here . |
| 17 | ‘ My grandfather died in 1935 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 18 | Barclay 's son James , who died in 1771 at the age of twenty-four , was the youthful author of An Examination of Mr Kenrick 's Review of Mr Johnson 's Edition of Shakespeare ( 1766 ) . |
| 19 | Matthias did not reign long enough to consolidate his achievements for he died in 1490 at the age of fifty . |
| 20 | He retired to Hampshire and died in 1832 at the age of 76 . |
| 21 | When Jeremy Bentham , the radical jurist , philosopher and founder of University College , London , died in 1832 at the age of eighty-four he bequeathed his body to Dr Southwood Smith , an anatomist and author of Uses of the Dead to the Living , in which it was suggested that the difficulties experienced by medical schools in acquiring bodies for dissection could be alleviated if people chose to bequeath their bodies to them . |
| 22 | They had three sons ( one of whom died in 1938 at the age of fifteen ) and one daughter . |
| 23 | Hooker died in 1600 at the age of forty-six after catching cold on a passage by water between Gravesend and Greenwich . |
| 24 | George died in 1906 at the age of fifty-nine and Mary lived to be eighty-four . |
| 25 | This ceased in 1986 , when I left the Midlands to return to the family home to help my sister in caring for our father , who died in 1988 at the age of 99 . |
| 26 | Today the influence of Isamu Noguchi , who died in 1988 at the age of eighty-four , is as vast as it is underrecognised . |
| 27 | Ferrari died in 1988 at the age of 90 . |
| 28 | His ancestors came from Tilley , just across the parish boundary , where the first Richard Gough of that name died in 1538 at the age of eighty-three . |
| 29 | Marshall Field died in 1905 at the age of seventy-one . |
| 30 | Rose of Lima was born in Peru in 1586 and died in 1617 at the age of thirty-one . |