Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sri Lankan government on April 1 issued a denial of claims that its navy had shot at two Indian fishing trawlers in the prawn-catching area off the north of the island on March 11 and 16 ; seven people were still missing after the latter incident . |
| 2 | Li Yuan hesitated , then , composing himself , he began , itemising the discoveries they had made at various SimFic establishments : discoveries which had broken the Edict . |
| 3 | Rachel relaxed , grateful , and gave her usual careful consideration to the matters before the meeting ; calmly ploughing through the minutiae and bureaucratic red tape of museum management , making the sort of useful contributions that she had made at any such meeting in the last twenty years . |
| 4 | For months he had been haunted by his memories of the battle of Toulouse ; reliving the bowel-loosening terror he had felt at that last conflict of the last war . |
| 5 | At first Creggan had mantled at these free birds , raising his great wings and lunging his beak towards them in a threatening way . |
| 6 | The exposition of the convergence thesis also points to the fact that countries which are alike in other respects would be expected to develop significant differences in their industrial relations if they had industrialised at different historical periods . |
| 7 | It was reported on March 13 that a Bulgarian seaman had died in hospital following an incident in which two Bulgarian patrol boats had fired at eight Turkish fishing boats , one of which had responded by ramming a Bulgarian boat . |
| 8 | While the ACP countries had sought an overall package totalling 15,500 million European currency units ( 1 ECU=USdollars 1.11661 as at Oct. 27 , 1989 ) over five years , the EC 's offer had stood at 10,800 million ECU when talks broke down on Oct. 30 . |