Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 2 | Emma Butler , 12 , was at a sports day with her family in May when the accident happened at the European School for children of nuclear scientists near Abingdon in Oxon . |
| 3 | It began at the same time for both of us , did n't it ? |
| 4 | One marvelled at the two-mile-long queue for Lenin 's tomb , and the loving care with which the Russians have restored the winter and summer palaces of the Czars after the destruction of World War Two . |
| 5 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 6 | But now she raised her eyes and did look , differently , at Alice , the housemate of a Council official who worked at the main office for this area . |
| 7 | He worked at the British Museum for more than five years ; and is currently a research assistant in the Imperial War Museum 's Dept of Exhibits and Firearms . |
| 8 | Similarly , it was long obvious that time went at the same rate for every observer , but since Einstein , we have had to accept that time goes at different rates for different observers . |
| 9 | Kelly stared at the pathetic figure for a moment and then let him go . |
| 10 | Albert Popple stared at the small creature for a few minutes and marvelled at its capacity to kill . |
| 11 | The men stood and stared at the abandoned Glory for what seemed like hours . |
| 12 | The TV presenter stared at the female detective for a second and then her face twisted into a sly smile . |
| 13 | He stared at the unfamiliar car for a moment , then his face hardened as he recognised her . |
| 14 | He stared at the empty glass for a moment . |
| 15 | She stared at the silent phone for a second , then slowly replaced the receiver and clasped her hands uncertainly in front of her . |
| 16 | Martha looked at the little girl for a moment . |
| 17 | The old man , who wore a cloth bow in his long gray hair , looked at the French boy for a moment , then his weather-beaten face cracked in a slow smile and he raised his arm above his head . |
| 18 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |
| 19 | They put on separate roadshows as they appeared at the same event for the first time since Mr Major 's statement in the House of Commons . |
| 20 | Six months after returning from the Soviet Union , Nizan spoke at the International Congress for the Defence of Culture of the possibilities in the current socio-political climate of establishing a genuinely human society freed from class divisions and class oppression . |
| 21 | I stood at the front door for a long time being soaked by the rain . |