Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 2 | Perhaps that was overstating what had happened out there , but , for first time in months , she 'd suddenly felt at the mercy of the audience , aware of every whisper , every stare . |
| 3 | He seemed greatly cheered at the prospect of my arrival and held out his glass . |
| 4 | Indeed , we 'd often hooted at a poster of a diminutive Den , aged six , which bore the words : ‘ He 's six , he sings , he syncopates . ’ |
| 5 | When at last I looked up we 'd almost arrived at the village . |
| 6 | Following the demonstration that children could achieve various levels of skill in referential communication tasks , attention became increasingly directed at the reasons for the relatively limited success of preschool and early primary school children at these tasks . |
| 7 | In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’ |
| 8 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 9 | The governors had effectively decided at an emergency meeting on Tuesday night that Mr Birt should stay but question marks still hung over the future of Mr Hussey , especially as the BBC 's General Advisory Council recommended on Wednesday that he should go for effectively bringing the BBC into disrepute at a time when its charter was coming up for renegotiation . |
| 10 | Holding the cow 's tail he leaned on the hairy back and , empty-eyed , blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset And of course , since the going was heavy , it just would happen that the job took much longer than usual . |
| 11 | There were several reasons for this : the delicate state of recovery within the economy meant that it would be foolish to contemplate a significant defence burden falling on Japanese shoulders ; the question of Japan 's future foreign policy was extremely contentious within the country and there was vocal hostility to any suggestion of reviving an active or adventurous approach to foreign matters ; furthermore Yoshida had personally suffered at the hands of the military and had no wish to see the old guard of the Japanese armed forces making a come-back . |
| 12 | It had all crystallised at a party . |
| 13 | But then I had one of my rare good ideas : why not try ringing up those breeders who had only advertised at the beginning of the breeding season , about six months before ? |
| 14 | In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered . |
| 15 | However , a few managers , probably because of the pressure of work , had only looked at the business plan the night before . ’ |
| 16 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 17 | Trained in watercolours by his father , the precocious Bonington had already exhibited at the Liverpool Academy before his family left England . |
| 18 | Shares had already fallen at the end of last year after Fisons estimated that the withdrawal of Opticrom and Imferon from the US markets had cost the company about £65m . |
| 19 | If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section . |
| 20 | Far greater than any of these , second only to Palestrina himself , was Tomas Luis de Victoria ( c. 1548–1611 ) , who in 1565 came to Rome from Spain where Morales ( see p. 236 ) and his pupil Francisco Guerrero ( c. 1527–1599 ) had already arrived at a perfection of the Netherland style hardly distinguishable from the Roman . |
| 21 | Agriculture Minister Sotiris Hatzikakis had already resigned at the end of November . |
| 22 | The deceased replied that he had already signed at the top of the document . |
| 23 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 24 | She said she had not complained at the paratroopers ' barracks because she knew she would be in trouble for being out of bounds . |
| 25 | His three spinster daughters , whom he had not registered at the parish church in any way , were all baptised as adults at Badcox . |
| 26 | If the Justice of the Forest discovered that a wood was without a woodward , or that a woodward had not taken the oath or had not appeared at the Forest Eyre to be sworn , or neglected his duty , or committed trespasses in the forest , the wood in question was seized for the king , but the owner was usually allowed to recover it on payment of a fine . |
| 27 | Why , Alyssia thought , she had not jumped at the idea the moment it was suggested was anybody 's guess . |
| 28 | He also noted how photographs could contain details the photographer had not observed at the time that the lens was focused and the exposure was made . |
| 29 | He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law . |
| 30 | McKenzie had told him that he had not looked at the videos or magazines for some years before the assault and felt they played no part in his behaviour . |