Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd origionaly been staying at the hotel Mediteran , but then moved to a villa . |
| 2 | Clearly , there could be no element of surprise , and although the rebel advance had been rapid until then , it had effectively been halted at the gates of Madrid . |
| 3 | The formal decision on industrialisation had already been made at the Fourteenth Party Congress in 1925 ; therefore the Fifteenth Congress could be claimed to be merely a continuation of previous policies . |
| 4 | The need to build on that which had already been achieved at the primary stage appeared to be still undervalued . |
| 5 | The austerity measures had already been introduced at the end of 1988 to tackle a reform policy which — it must be recognised — had got wildly out of hand . |
| 6 | Some 100,000 tickets had already been sold at the new , low fare , in Britain and America , before the government ruling . |
| 7 | That was what happened in 1984 when Renault 's Formula 1 programme fell into disarray the season after it had just been pipped at the final post by the Brabham-BMW team . |
| 8 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 9 | A new Church of England Church had also been erected at the southern end of Sutton Lane , and was named St. Michael 's as the money for it had been realised by the sale of St. Michael 's Church in Burleigh Street , London , which had been associated with St. Martins-in-the-Fields . |
| 10 | In January 1990 the Maldives pressed its claim to hold that year 's summit , as had also been decided at the Islamabad summit . |
| 11 | Philip Drew had also been seen at the relevant time by a stagehand . |
| 12 | In another sense the domination of the Labour Party had also been achieved at the expense of other claimants to the leadership of the socialist movement and the working class . |
| 13 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 14 | In some localities trouble had undoubtedly been expected at the time of the Bank Holiday , and it was reported in Lambeth police court that plainclothes men had been specially stationed for the purpose of dealing with cases of street ruffianism' . |
| 15 | He then proceeded to identify a periglacial cycle which went beyond a relationship between climate and process and attracted some of the criticisms that had previously been levelled at the Davisian ‘ normal ’ cycle . |
| 16 | Nicu Ceausescu 's elder brother Valentin Ceausescu and his sister Zoia Ceausescu , both of whom had held senior academic posts , had likewise been detained at the height of the revolution , but were released during August . |
| 17 | Smallfry had told him that a body had recently been dumped at the tunnel entrance where the beck came into view for several yards before vanishing again into the darkness below ground . |
| 18 | She knew all that and , more , she had actually been passing at the time . |
| 19 | 75 per cent of subjects in this condition included a statement about the overall theme of the passage at the beginning of their recall protocols even though this information had actually been presented at the end of the passage and subjects were instructed to recall the passage verbatim . |
| 20 | Unless the capitalist class was engaged in a conspiracy which was simultaneously crudely self-interested , brilliantly well-hidden and ( remarkably ) informed by economic analyses of a kind which had never been published at the time , it is hard to see how and why this occurred . |