Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun sg] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 2 | He often said that religious fasts were bad for the health , and ate in moderation at all times . |
| 3 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 4 | They gazed in wonder at this goddess , and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage . |
| 5 | The teaching profession grew in strength at this time , developing a formal system of training to replace the nineteenth-century pupil teacher system . |
| 6 | The 1966 plan , and two subsequent parts dealing with academic organization and administrative structure , and library and information services , looked in detail at such areas as target size and accommodation , the curriculum , research policy , outside relationships , academic standards , governance and structure . |