Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABA light heavyweight champion Anthony Todd , of Darlington , travels to the second of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments in Berck sur Mer hoping he 'll follow in the footsteps of Scarborough 's Paul Ingle , who qualified for Barcelona at the previous tournament in Denmark . |
| 2 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 3 | On the Saturday evening , before seeing Law on the following morning , he dined with Davidson at the Argentine Club and informed him that he would ‘ rather take a single ticket to Siberia than become Prime Minister ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Our aim has been to show that food can be fun , ’ said Paul who trained with Jeanne at the famed Roux brothers ' Le Gavroche restaurant in London . |
| 5 | Special Forces men burst through the front door of The Anabaptist Reform Church , and gaped in horror at the unholy tableau spread out before them . |
| 6 | Laidlaw trailed off when a car suddenly came into view at the other end of the dimly lit street . |
| 7 | The classic remark came from Abrams at the public hearings : ‘ I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I had no idea about . ’ |
| 8 | The Wootton and Widgery proposals came to hand at the right time ; there were pressures from bodies such as the Magistrates ' Association and the Justices ' Clerks ; while the prospect of legislation prompted a clearing out of the pigeon holes of Whitehall . |
| 9 | The two senior residents frowned in unison at the rising temperature chart . |
| 10 | The major slick , and the only one posing a serious threat to wildlife , had emanated from the Mina al-Ahmadi terminal in Kuwait , and from oil storage tanks ruptured in combat at the Saudi border town of Khafji ; smaller slicks came from Iraq 's Mina al-Bakr terminal and facilities around Bubiyan Island . |
| 11 | Then he holed from 20ft at the long second and six feet at the fifth and sixth to maintain his record of not having suffered a failure in Europe since the Cannes Open two years ago . |
| 12 | She sighed in delight at the delicious possibilities for revenge … |
| 13 | Momper 's " red-green " alliance had collapsed on Nov. 15 when the AL withdrew in protest at the violent eviction by 3,000 police of several hundred ( mainly west Berliner ) squatters from 13 apartment buildings in the Friedrichshain district of east Berlin the previous day ; 300 people were arrested and over 100 injured in the clashes . |
| 14 | The Palestinians were kept bound and blindfolded in buses at the Lebanese border for some 20 hours while Israeli civil rights lawyers tried to win a court order to halt the deportations . |
| 15 | Anyway , ’ he concluded morosely , ‘ it was established that he arrived in Kinghorn at the expected time . ’ |
| 16 | The troll was out to lunch , the sky did not fall in and the three pals arrived without mishap at the Gruff 's house . |
| 17 | She watched with amazement as goats were pushed into guards ' vans ; she gazed with awe at the rough , dark faces that loomed in front of her out of the steam . |
| 18 | He returned for work at the normal hour without it . ’ |
| 19 | The old King was now hurrying south and with him would come those grizzled warlords who followed like mastiffs at the royal heels . |
| 20 | Asik gazed in wonder at the strange contraption . |
| 21 | We gazed in wonderment at the fantastic shape of the small island of Tindholmur as we passed . |
| 22 | I gazed in admiration at the splendid mellow brick Tudor gatehouses of Trinity and St John 's with their painted coats of arms and their octagonal towers ; at the oriel windows , and the fantastically-patterned corkscrew chimneys ; at the playful Gothic-revival fantasy of the Bridge of Sighs . |
| 23 | They visited the huge Gothic cathedral and gazed in awe at the beautiful Murillos — Saint Anthony and the Immaculate Conception — the stained-glass windows and the many other treasures the centuries had gifted the cathedral with . |
| 24 | It was nearly two in the afternoon when , having watched the changing of the Guard at the Amalienborg Palace , admired the copper spire of the old Stock Exchange formed by the twisted tails of four dragons , gazed in appreciation at the magnificent Gefion 's Fountain and paid the customary respects to the statue of the Little Mermaid at the entrance to the harbour , she caught a bus back to the canal district . |
| 25 | Topaz blushed with pleasure at the unexpected praise , but she still went on driving herself to , and beyond , her limits . |
| 26 | For eighteen months Steel-Maitland worked with Law at the Colonial Office , a useful liaison that kept the leader and Chairman in close touch . |
| 27 | He first exhibited in England at the Royal Manchester Institution in 1853 and in London in February 1854 at the British Institution . |
| 28 | Labour 's John Aberdeen talked to colleagues at the Scottish Labour Party Conference ; the Conservative candidate , Hampshire barrister Dr Paul McCormick , made an immediate and thorough study of the circumstances surrounding the removal of the children , and Frances McKie for the Scottish National Party was quick to express her horror of the Social Work Department 's actions . |
| 29 | The cruel vengeance which Basil exacted from the thousands of prisoners taken at Kleidon — he blinded all save one in every hundred , and compelled the sighted ones to lead their blind comrades back to Prilep , where Samuilo died of shock at the piteous sight — earned him the name of Bulgaroctonos ( Slayer of the Bulgars ) . |
| 30 | He looked with distaste at the rotting timbers above them . |