Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his report was submitted , it dwelt at length on the key figure of Monzer al-Kassar and his involvement with Palestinian terrorist groups , supporting Aviv 's assertion of al-Kassar 's connection with the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 2 | It was still empty and she wandered at will around the main hall , seeing only those involved in administration moving about . |
| 3 | Felipe de Santis sat at the wheel , his eyes dark and irritated as he approached at speed over the rough ground . |
| 4 | People in swimsuits or shorts and tops strolled at liberty on the wide sands . |
| 5 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 6 | On 26 May 1918 , they sailed for France on the Leasowe Castle , torpedoed at midnight on the 26/27 , the survivors taken back to Alexandria . |
| 7 | It happened at night in the stable , and in the morning the Untouchable women came and dragged it outside and butchered it just in front of the house . |
| 8 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |
| 9 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 10 | Russian tanks were in Hungary in 1956 and we prayed at school for the dying , who were not Russian . |
| 11 | We talked at length about the new sails . |
| 12 | Those pants of his were around his knees when he slammed through the double doors of the brownstone , and around his ankles as he stumbled at speed up the first flight of stairs . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher 's reticence in the Commons contrasted with her more favourable tone toward the ERM in an interview with the Financial Times , in which she hinted at entry before the next election . |
| 14 | I started at school in the 1920s , when we were taught how to knit the toe and heel of socks ( very handy in later life ) and I continued to knit later for my children , grandchildren and even a great-grandson until about four years ago when I developed knitter 's thumb ! |
| 15 | The pigs the mariners left on the islands probably looked at lot like the ancestral wild boars , and certainly when pink pigs go wild , it 's only a few generations before they 're muscular , nimble and fierce again . |
| 16 | Serbian delegates were in Istanbul discussing the implementation of the Convention when British , French and Russian ships blasted the Turkish fleet out of the water as it lay at anchor in the enclosed natural harbour at Navarino ( Pylos ) in the southern Morea on 20 October 1827 . |
| 17 | A case in point , which we discussed at length in the first edition of this book , is Teesside Polytechnic where the CNAA 's 1978 quinquennial review led to the most critical report ever issued by the CNAA on an institution : among other things , it criticized the local authority for its inadequate support for the polytechnic and the director for a failure in internal management . |
| 18 | An attraction of this view is that the notion of the ‘ I ’ or ‘ self ’ appears to bear the character of transcendence and immanence , discussed at length in the previous section . |
| 19 | Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses . |
| 20 | In desperation he attempted at dawn on the 27th to throw a force across the Meuse at Samogneux , but the attackers were caught up on wire entanglements hidden beneath the flooded river . |
| 21 | It recommended that more grammar school places be provided , and that financial provision be improved for pupils who remained at school after the minimum leaving age . |
| 22 | Concern remained at loss of the substantive power to determine the content of specific legislation . |