Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 2 | Kimber first danced in public at the golden jubilee celebrations in 1887 , but the side was disbanded after this , only to be revived by the Oxford don Percy Manning in 1897 , and Kimber did not perform with them again until 1899 . |
| 3 | The OSI , which they adopted , had been pioneered by several international bodies ; the initial work began in 1977 at the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) on developing a seven-layer OSI reference model . |
| 4 | John Mason died in 1899 at the early age of sixty-four . |
| 5 | Count Leo Tolstoy , whose tragic heroine Anna Karenina threw herself under a train , himself died in 1910 at the remote Russian country station of Astapovo . |
| 6 | She was ‘ rediscovered ’ as a film-maker in the early 80's , and a series of retrospectives and tributes culminated in 1990 at the International Festival of Women 's Films in Creteil , where a programme of her work was feted by capacity audiences . |
| 7 | The will to forget the occupation years was provoked initially by the disgust felt by many at the anarchic retribution known as ‘ the purge ’ in which thousands of Frenchmen accused of collaboration were executed by avenging teenagers , only sometimes under the doubtful authority of resistance tribunals . |
| 8 | We will fund crash courses in the main areas of skill shortage , aimed in particular at the long-term unemployed . |
| 9 | This time Stewart ran in unmarked at the far post to score with a downward header from Jan Molby 's free kick . |
| 10 | All but a handful of the 18,298 crowd stayed in their places but their growing frustration reached fever pitch in the 88th minute when Adams stole in unmarked at the far post to volley home Le Tissier 's inviting cross . |