Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 9 November 1856 ) tried its hand at a garotting song , it summed up the feeling well enough : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Shifting into an uncomfortable position in which her back was slightly turned to the tray , with her hands still strapped down , she turned her head at a painful angle to watch the tray . |
| 6 | However , when unveiled , this scheme met with only a lukewarm response ( and was disparagingly described by the prince of Wales as ‘ resembling a 1930s wireless set ’ ) and SAVE renewed its objection at a second public inquiry in 1988 . |
| 7 | He turned his head at a slight tap on the door . |
| 8 | The war on the Western Front in 1917 — 18 had turned Chesterton into an alcoholic , a condition which he finally controlled in the later 1930s , thanks to the generosity of Mosley who financed his cure at a special clinic in Germany . |
| 9 | Today the farmer and five travellers began their appeal at a public inquiry in Leominster , calling for the site to be approved : |
| 10 | It was the only friendly thing in a lonely waste of unseen watery hills over which Viking shouldered her way at a laborious six knots . |
| 11 | He jabbed his pen at a dark area on Bryce 's X-rays too . |
| 12 | Crowe , out for a duck first time around and whose previous highest score on the tour was 19 , recaptured his form at a fitting moment . |
| 13 | We strengthened our work at a European level though the European Environmental Bureau . |
| 14 | Their immediate neighbours were Joshua Burn , a grocer , at no. 6 , and James Bradnam , butcher , at no. 5 ; one can only hope that Mr. Bradnam kept his slaughterhouse at a decent distance from his retail premises — the very special aromas of a butcher 's and a grocer 's shop must have been enough to discourage many a potential guest at Miscellaneous Repos , without the sound of dying cries from butchered beasts . |
| 15 | For Hesketh , now committed to racing and to Hunt 's career — with a generosity unparalleled in FI — it seemed as sensible to take Hunt straight up into FI , and Hunt duly made his debut at a non-championship race at Brands Hatch early in 1973 , there earning , in a used Surtees TS9B , a third place just behind Denny Hulme — and Hulme was , let it be noted , driving the McLaren M23 , a far more advanced car . |
| 16 | Each distinct form of humanity had its origin at a particular point in space and time , from which it expanded throughout the world before collapsing in the face of pressure from a more highly evolved type . |
| 17 | The Australian bren gunner might have been caught as he moved smartly back up the steep hill had not ‘ two natives appeared from nowhere ’ and carried his gun at a quick trot over the hill . |
| 18 | England 's foreign policy was made by the privy council committee of foreign affairs , and in the last analysis by the king himself , aided by whichever minister or favourite had his ear at a given moment . |
| 19 | • 79% wanted their baby at a local hospital and only 8% at home . |
| 20 | She set her torso at a provocative angle on her hips , arched her knee a little , and stuck out her thumb . |