Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , at that precise second , the makeshift platform gave way and Bobby disappeared at the very height of his rhetoric with the chairman , the union secretary , the workers ’ deputy and the four constables who by now had infiltrated the platform party . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that representatives of both Korea and Taiwan appeared at the public hearing on the issue to argue their case , Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to grant the request for certification . |
| 3 | In side-streets , special Stasi units and paddy-wagons waited at the ready . |
| 4 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 5 | Thérèse and Léonie stared at the steep wall of rock , at the grass and weeds at its foot . |
| 6 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 7 | Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics and England did at the 1986 World Cup . |
| 8 | Salt was making a meal of Jess 's shortcomings and Nancy stared at the new kitchen wench while her mother nodded in her easy-going way as she took off her shawl and recaptured her dropping hairpins . |
| 9 | Syl and Robert arrived at the same time and my mother poured them drinks . |
| 10 | I sat at one end of the table and Wallis sat at the other end . |
| 11 | They ran back to the house and Endill waited at the front door while his mother went to see who or what it was . |
| 12 | Rain and Oliver called at the flat but the fingerprints man had still not been . |
| 13 | Although it is doubtful that throughout the middle ages masters and servants ate at the same table , above and below the salt , as the Victorians supposed , the Gothic hall , entered directly from the outside world and accommodating every social rank , symbolized their ideal of social integration . |
| 14 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 15 | They sat in the car , and Juliet looked at the scribbled address on the envelope . |
| 16 | He walked out and Jenna looked at the closed door . |
| 17 | But in 1987 , countries including Germany and Britain cavilled at the combined costs of the three programmes — Ariane 5 , Columbus and Hermes . |
| 18 | I help myself to a drink and stare entranced at the bald patch in the shag-pile over by the door . |
| 19 | He and Bowyer sat at the high table , the Santerres and ourselves were treated as onlookers . |
| 20 | All telescopes and binoculars swivelled at the first shout of ‘ Merlin ! ’ and trained on the dashing raptor . |
| 21 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |
| 22 | Whether it was Millie 's infuriated strength that caused the woman 's grasp on the scissors to slacken , or that she changed her tactics and meant to direct the scissors towards the child 's face , could n't be known , but Millie grabbed at the open blades and , managing to twist them round , consciously or by accident drove one of the blades into the nun 's arm . |
| 23 | But Peter rose at the same moment . |