Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 2 | Thérèse objected to realism at this point . |
| 3 | These new techniques brought about an increase in the things which people needed to control for production , especially land , herds , tools , and even the slaves who became of importance at this stage . |
| 4 | Their father disapproved of alcohol at any time , but to enter a public house on the Sabbath was completely unthinkable . |
| 5 | Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em . |
| 6 | He often said that religious fasts were bad for the health , and ate in moderation at all times . |
| 7 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 8 | Elizabeth had brought up a couple of hot bricks wrapped in pieces of blanket , which she popped into bed at each side of him . |
| 9 | Framlingham Hall sprang to mind at that point . |
| 10 | They gazed in wonder at this goddess , and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage . |
| 11 | He grinned and she felt her spirits rise as she looked with affection at this man who was like a brother to her . |
| 12 | The teaching profession grew in strength at this time , developing a formal system of training to replace the nineteenth-century pupil teacher system . |
| 13 | The 1966 plan , and two subsequent parts dealing with academic organization and administrative structure , and library and information services , looked in detail at such areas as target size and accommodation , the curriculum , research policy , outside relationships , academic standards , governance and structure . |
| 14 | but , I , when I was in Stockport I went to work at that tailor 's shop |
| 15 | That winter she went to work at another farm , where Marian was working . |
| 16 | Jenna looked up at him with puzzlement in her deep blue eyes and he shrugged with annoyance at this slide into his own language . |