Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 2 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 3 | Spa towns led by Bath , ports headed by Bristol and Liverpool and including the new venture at Whitehaven , and manufacturing centres like Birmingham , Leeds , Manchester and Sheffield began to grow at a significant rate . |
| 4 | We began to run at a great speed through the trees , and Silver was soon thirty metres behind us . |
| 5 | The population of the town soon began to expand at a phenomenal rate . |
| 6 | In order to avoid what Cantalupo termed a situation of " paralysis " in Spain , Italian diplomacy sought to arrive at a political solution in the Basque Country . |
| 7 | For Green , the proposal of the Cambridge Board had major implications at national level and he sought to arrive at a local compromise to prevent a more widespread set of problems for the WEA . |
| 8 | Most bottom-dwelling trilobites preferred to live at a particular water depth , or on a particular type of sea bottom ( mud , sand or lime ) . |
| 9 | After an inconclusive discussion , the Cabinet agreed to return at a later meeting to the question ‘ whether the Government , as such , should tender advice to the House of Commons on the abolition of the death penalty ’ . |
| 10 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 11 | By 1925 , this early optimism had disappeared and the District continued to struggle at a financial subsistence level throughout the whole period , apparently incapable of seriously addressing the resolution of the problem of financial self-sufficiency . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars . |
| 13 | She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges . |
| 14 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 15 | She also took to pastry-making , which she continued to practise at a local confectioner 's when she returned to Epsom in 1854 , though her family thought this to be ‘ ultra modern and not quite nice ’ . |
| 16 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 17 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 18 | In these subjects the OR continued to occur at a high level throughout training , a result suggesting that a stimulus that fails to predict its consequences reliably will continue to receive some form of processing . |
| 19 | Because when I read the leaflet on that crucial afternoon , it turned out that I could n't start swallowing the pills on any old day : the course had to begin at a particular point in my menstrual cycle . |
| 20 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 21 | Craxi vehemently denied the allegations and refused to resign at a closed meeting of the party executive on Dec. 17 . |
| 22 | He wanted to stare at a free sky . |