Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penelope walked slowly away from the house , then pretended to be locking at an empty house which was to be sold two doors away from where Rupert lived . |
| 2 | This was in marked contrast to the situation in some other European countries where more formally theoretical disciplines came to be placed at the curricular core of the nation . |
| 3 | And thus it was , that February evening , that she came to be standing at the top of the monumental sweep of the staircase , under the huge doorway , pausing for a moment , offering tribute to herself and all her gods . |
| 4 | I do n't know how it came to be shown at the Carlton , East Ham , but one Sunday my parents took me to see The Sheep Has Five Legs starring the French comedian Fernandel . |
| 5 | He had dropped down on to one knee and with head bowed seemed to be pushing at the trolley before him , which for some reason had taken on an obstinate immobility . |
| 6 | The man whom Sergeant Bird ushered in through the door seemed to be buckling at the knees , and his Adam 's apple jerked furiously in his throat as he swallowed time and again . |
| 7 | He seemed to be looking at a picture only he could see . |
| 8 | She was forty-six : her face was unlined , her hair still golden without grey in it , her body trim , very trim , yet he seemed to be looking at an old woman . |
| 9 | The strength which seemed to be stressed at the beginning of the campaign was his niceness . |
| 10 | Instead I seemed to be set at the centre of a largish halo of believable ambience . |
| 11 | BBS seriously considered firing Hopper ; the pressure of moving a production team of twenty-three people from state to state , writing the script on the run and persuading innocent citizens of the United States of America who just happened to be passing at the time to appear in the movie , was a heavy burden for all . |
| 12 | Station Officer Russ Broadbent of Southport Fire station , said : ‘ It was very lucky that Mrs Parry happened to be passing at the time . |
| 13 | Vologsky had constantly reassured himself that the repeated refusals were simply because his applications happened to be made at an inopportune moment . |
| 14 | Everything had an improvised , random air about it , as if people had erected new machines just where they happened to be standing at the time , next to the debris of the old . |
| 15 | This Pentax weather-resistant camera arrived to be tested at a very opportune moment — I was just about to head off for a surfing weekend in North Cornwall . |
| 16 | Hundreds arrived to be registered at a special inquiry centre in St Saviour 's church , which will be open from 10am to 10pm until tomorrow night . |
| 17 | But it was in the late Hellenistic period , as Aphrodisias developed from a temple site into a fullyfledged city and favoured ally of Rome , that marble began to be extracted at a faster pace . |
| 18 | Around the turn of the century manufacture began to be concentrated at a new site in Ilford . |
| 19 | Accusations began to be levelled at the Sixties and Seventies people . |
| 20 | Local newspapers ran campaigns focusing on what needed to be done at a grass roots level and the region 's evening paper , the Liverpool Echo , mounted an unprecedented campaign , culminating in its ‘ Drugs : A Generation in Peril ’ series during September 1984 . |
| 21 | Believing that death was at hand he confirmed the territorial dispositions made at Montmirail and asked to be buried at the monastery of Grandmont in the Limousin , one of the monks of which had played an important part in the peace negotiations . |
| 22 | An ‘ authoring system ’ , called ‘ Kaleida ’ and expected to be released at the end of the year , will enable publishers or packagers to edit together text , sound , still and moving pictures . |
| 23 | First there is the fact that when the work has become a commodity , produced to be sold at a profit , the internal calculations of any such market production lead directly to new forms of cultural control and especially cultural selection . |
| 24 | Our business correspondent Alan Saunby says the deal puts a question mark over a similar turbo prop planned to be built at the Ayrshire plant . |
| 25 | The Australian yellow submarine looked to be sunk at the bottom of a roadside ditch . |
| 26 | Mark crossed Parliament Square and even the statue of Churchill appeared to be growling at the sorry state of affairs in the land where a pettifogging ex-apprentice was invited to address Right Honourable Members of both Houses . |
| 27 | Not only that , but the beams appeared to be coming at a faster rate now — more than once a second . |
| 28 | The golden irises of his eyes seemed to have expanded , and with his head held too high he appeared to be staring at the ceiling . |
| 29 | But their anger appeared to be directed at the Renault rather than the Jaguar . |
| 30 | However , the two state-run foreign-exchange earners , the Suez Canal Authority and the Egyptian General Petroleum Company , continued to be paid at the old Central Bank rate , allowing the extra Epounds 0.40 to be retained in special accounts to subsidize the price of such staple foods as wheat , flour and cooking oil . |