Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 2 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 3 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 4 | The Project set out to develop and encourage ‘ good practice ’ in the teaching of mathematics to low-attaining pupils , but it became clear at an early stage that low attainment was not limited to pupils in the ‘ bottom 40 per cent ’ attainment range . |
| 5 | He also described minute-taking at the final meeting as unfair . |
| 6 | There seemed a strange lack of conviction about the Ipswich display and three minutes before the interval there was another scare when Hendrie crossed from the right but Wilkinson headed wide at the far post . |
| 7 | He headed wide at the far post and then forced Reece to push his angled shot round a post . |
| 8 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 9 | The heroes of the hour were left-hander David Byas and Craig White , who both came good at the same time to record their career-best Sunday scores . |
| 10 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 11 | But his mother became angry at the new psychiatrist 's opinion . |
| 12 | When the security forces mounted check points at every key road into Belfast , commuters soon became angry at the lengthy delays , and the cost was enormous . |
| 13 | He said he got angry at the absolute resistance to any kind of moderate reform and at the dismissive way some of them spoke about poor old Trueman . |
| 14 | Complaints of headaches should be taken seriously and genetic counselling made available at the appropriate time . |
| 15 | They always got drunk at the Commercial Hotel when their shift was over . |
| 16 | Folly stared unseeing at the crumpled sheets , as if the bed that had so recently harboured their ecstasy might now prove the anodyne to pain . |
| 17 | I had quite forgotten that Mrs Bailes occasionally tethered him in the kennel at the entrance to discourage unwelcome visitors , and as I half lay against the wall , the blood thundering in my ears , I looked dully at the long coil of chain on the cobbles . |
| 18 | Rachel was taken to her home in Mossley Hill by friends after saying she felt ill at a 21st birthday party in Wavertree . |
| 19 | Well they knew that I was a graduate in erm , they had two , they had a , a lab manager and an assistant , and they both went sick at the same time , and er , they asked me if I 'd do it . |
| 20 | and lay prostrate at a little distance from Sunderland House was blasted with gunpowder and removed , in the process of levelling and draining the ground for agricultural purposes . |
| 21 | Her eyelids flew up , and she stared wide-eyed at the carved steel mask of Guy 's dark face above her . |
| 22 | He pushed the SE into a near-vertical dive and stared wide-eyed at the growing target . |
| 23 | ‘ Keeper Steve Wilson looked comfortable at the last line of defence , making one brave save following a bad backpass from Renninson . |
| 24 | They had always found buccaneering terribly alarming , and felt seasick at the slightest sign of bad weather . |
| 25 | Lalage grew desperate at the slow speed of their progress . |
| 26 | I recently sang live at the Asian Pop Awards ceremony and I got a real buzz realising I was before my own people . |
| 27 | The mouth of every Councillor fell open at the same moment . |
| 28 | In the end , the understandings we have offered here came about indirectly from the actual learning process itself and contact with the deaf community as much as from the direct questioning we felt necessary at the initial stage . |
| 29 | The price was recognised as much too low and many insurers became worried at the apparent undervaluation of their organisations . |
| 30 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |