Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 2 | Andy Culshaw , the other trumpeter , studied at the Birmingham School of Music , while tubist Richard Sandland hails from Tamworth and also studied at the Royal College of Music . |
| 3 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 4 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 5 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 6 | She went into the kitchen and tidied up , and then sat at the front window , watching people pass , hunched in her own disillusionment . |
| 7 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 8 | Suddenly I felt homesick , even before I left , and quietly raged at the royal bastard 's devious plans . |
| 9 | Compared with the ICC — whose point was brilliantly proved by strong refereeing at Bridgetown in April by Raman Subba Row — the English Board got close to the root of the problem but unaccountably jibbed at the final fence . |