Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 2 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 3 | When Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 9 November 1856 ) tried its hand at a garotting song , it summed up the feeling well enough : |
| 4 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
| 5 | Group fixed ( above ) concentrated its search at the correct feeder location ( intersection of uninterrupted lines in the lower left region ) , while group varied searched randomly around the L+ landmark ( intersection of uninterrupted and dotted lines ) . |
| 6 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 7 | The Fatherland Front ( the former umbrella organization of the BCP and the BZNS ) changed its name at an extraordinary congress on March 30-April 1 , 1990 , to the Fatherland Union in an attempt to avoid the " front-line sound " of its name . |
| 8 | Thresher insiders believe the company changed its decision at the last minute after TODAY 's revelations yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 10 | Although Billing retained his seat at the 1918 general election , ill health forced his retirement in 1921 . |
| 11 | He turned his head away , and as the light caught his face at a certain angle Nenna realised in terror that he was right and that he would never get anywhere . |
| 12 | Another bogus defector was code-named Fedora , possibly in reality Viktor Lessiovski , who used his work at the United Nations as a cover . |
| 13 | Mr Redwood used his debut at the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen at the weekend to ram home this message , which will have special meaning for Welsh-speaking communities in North Wales . |
| 14 | Guinness tried his hand at the new Porter with rather more success than his fellow Dublin brewers . |
| 15 | The appellant was anxious for the matter to be dealt with in the magistrates ' court , but his accomplice elected to be tried in the Crown Court , but changed his plea at the last minute . |
| 16 | Paul 's unease on the back nine was critical , and there were other points : Nick changed his putter at the last minute . |
| 17 | Once a boy was almost carted away but the Headmaster changed his mind at the last moment . |
| 18 | Designed by Carlo Chiti , later to build some explosively temperamental F1 engines for Alfa Romeo , the ATS cars made their debut at the 1963 Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 19 | The 63 made its debut at the Dutch Grand Prix , driven by John Miles , Lotus 's regular drivers Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt refusing to have anything to do with it . |
| 20 | It made its debut at the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring with Jack behind the wheel , but he was forced to retire after nine laps . |
| 21 | IBM Corp made its debut at the National Association of Broadcasters Exhibition with its Ultimedia Tools Series , an integrated suite of over 60 software tools . |
| 22 | Of course she sold her house at the wrong time . |
| 23 | In between driving lessons — she passed her test at the second attempt she was much in demand as a babysitter by her sisters ' married friends while Sarah used her to make up numbers at her frequent dinner parties . |
| 24 | He sat next to me and I wrinkled my nose at the sweaty odour emanating from the long , black , food-stained gown he wore . |
| 25 | On the contrary she roused my indignation at the two conspicuously Christian aunts who had made her childhood in that dark house at Newport miserable . |
| 26 | A crowd of 4,500 , packed into the tiny ground just behind the ice rink , roared its approval at every stout tackle , every lung-bursting sprint . |
| 27 | Two days later , the parents told their story at a public meeting in the village hall in St Margaret 's Hope , a little fishing village on the edge of Scapa Flow . |
| 28 | ‘ My conclusion , ’ Mr Davison told his audience at the recent Irish Institute conference in Galway , ‘ is that no rational person would contemplate a merger between the Big Six . ’ |
| 29 | He told his audience at the French Academy of Political and Moral Sciences : ‘ One of the joys for me of being in France is that you have a particularly strong sense of the ultimate cost to the human spirit of unrelenting migration from the countryside to the big cities . ’ |
| 30 | England 's under-16 side opened their section at the same venue with an impressive 8–0 victory over Scotland after scoring six goals before the interval . |