Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we 'd all agreed at previous meetings that , with minor exceptions , all the major new plants would be located on the continent ? ’ |
| 2 | I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour . |
| 3 | Milton felt quite cheered at this form of address . |
| 4 | His lines are very economical , she said to M. Grimaud , who looked solidly startled at this view and spoke dismissively of women with three breasts , or single eyes , paintings more infantile than those of Cromagnon man . |
| 5 | Miss Logan grew seriously perturbed at these observations . |
| 6 | Cox said that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , which had only looked at direct CFC warming effects , will now investigate the interactions . |
| 7 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 8 | Provided the gamma dose rate , which had possibly changed at some point in the history of the daub , was not a dominant contribution to the TL age , TL could solve the mystery . |
| 9 | Bryony was the most definite , dogmatic , and ( in the defence of her own ideas ) fierce person Caro had ever met at close quarters . |
| 10 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
| 11 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 12 | As I stood in front of her , I noticed that her watch and a clock in the room had both stopped at twenty minutes to nine . |
| 13 | Bordeaux had not taken kindly to competition from what it dismissed as ‘ the hinterland ’ , and had even insisted at one point on Bergerac wines being shipped in smaller casks , thus forcing the Bergerac vignerons to pay more tax on their exports , the money being levied per cask . |
| 14 | It was a no-win situation for the unfortunate air crews taking part , and it would have been understandable if morale had completely cracked at that time . |
| 15 | They had never talked at any length before and Seb found the gipsy stimulating and amusing company . |