Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the many improvements in state provision Eva found her time at social services a great eye opener . |
| 2 | The emphasis with the old , as with any other age-group , should be on prevention before the need for cure arises , and some elderly people suffer quite unnecessarily from the ‘ silent ’ types of illness which show no dramatic symptoms in their early stages ( such as anaemia ) , and which might well be diagnosed if they visited their doctor at six-monthly intervals when feeling at all ‘ off colour ’ . |
| 3 | Both the Prime Minister and the Home Office minister , John Patten , tried their hands at epigrammatic contributions to the message being broadcast . |
| 4 | After the war , when he was out of the army , he tried his hand at several things , and they were all pretty much a disaster . |
| 5 | Since the noises in the House of Commons in 1927 and 1928 , the bishops sanctioned or winked their eyes at various modifications which were sensible and did not mind that they were illegal . |
| 6 | ( The Portuguese had removed the prohibition on the import of English woollen goods , under the terms of the Methuen Treaty of 1703 , only on condition that England admitted their wines at preferential rates . ) |
| 7 | But two lorry drivers passing the scene described Mrs Chandler 's attacker as slightly smaller than her and estimated his height at five feet eight or nine inches . |
| 8 | The kingdom of Heaven was present in the sense that God guided his people at all times . |
| 9 | When European trees were taken to the tropics to grace the residences of nineteenth-century colonists , they continued to grow and shed their leaves at regular intervals . |
| 10 | Many professional people , such as judges and teachers , commenced their duties at stated hours , and by the late Middle Ages even the often unruly undergraduates at universities such as Oxford were subjected to the discipline of fixed timetables . |
| 11 | The first mate and the ship 's engineer took their meals at different times , and did not use the saloon as a sitting-room . |
| 12 | When her company offered her employment at new premises she could no longer walk to work but would have had to undergo a half-hour bus journey . |
| 13 | Four soldiers with submachine guns patrolled the room , and an officer made his rounds at frequent intervals . |
| 14 | They were promoted by local landowners and farmers or industrial and commercial interests and even by the clergy , and their active promoters in groups of around a dozen ran their affairs at monthly meetings , employed the paid surveyors and labourers and contracted for repairs . |
| 15 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 16 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 17 | Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives . |