Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A radiation leak occurred at the Russian nuclear power station at Sosnovyy Bor , 90 km west of St Petersburg , on March 24 . |
| 2 | He dipped the cotton wool in the water and dabbed at the livid puffy eyes . |
| 3 | They settled for a country life ; Johnnie studied at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester and , following an uneasy spell on the Althorp estate , they moved to Park House . |
| 4 | He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 . |
| 5 | She bridled at the apparent underlying threat in his words . |
| 6 | The left 's moment of revenge came at the Labour special conference at Wembley in 1980 . |
| 7 | AUSTIN Rawlinson 's finest hour as a competitor came at the famous 1924 Chariots of Fire Olympics in Paris , where he finished fifth in the final . |
| 8 | It was a clean , well-swept establishment with secure stables , a fresh herb-smelling tap room , a large roaring fire with the logs piled high — though he baulked at the huge four-poster bed he 'd have to share with Sir John . |
| 9 | The trouble is that , since those days , the West has moved steadily westward , and has left Greece isolated at the bottom right-hand corner of Europe . |
| 10 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 11 | As the party arrived at the small front door of the house , some puffing from the climb , Samuel held up his hand impressively . |
| 12 | It then crossed the Indian Ocean and rounded Australia and arrived at the small purpose-built port of Tokai northeast of Tokyo in early January . |
| 13 | Like everyone else on holiday , he thought he had ‘ got away from it all ’ for a few days until he arrived at the famous White Horse Inn and was confronted by … fellow Fellow ( ! ) |
| 14 | We had received the full blast of his whimsicality the minute we arrived at the ancient wood-frame rectory , modernised in 1812 ( according to the brochure ) by the great-grandson of Sir Christopher Wren . |
| 15 | Newton first arrived at the inverse square law of attraction by considering the elliptical motion of a point planet around a stationary point sun . |
| 16 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 17 | Some weeks later , a letter arrived at the little white house on the hill . |
| 18 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 19 | Niall glanced at the white baseball-type cap lying on her knees . |
| 20 | ‘ How ? ’ she glanced at the complicated internal phone system beside the bed . |
| 21 | One notes S. A. Waksman ( 1888–1973 ) , who worked at the Agricultural Experimental Station of the State University of New Jersey . |
| 22 | Koch started at the top seven years ago with an 85ft cruising boat , a 65ft fishing boat and an 81ft racing maxi named Matador , after the family ranch in Kansas . |
| 23 | Jones , 48 , died at the European Indoor Championships in Genoa . |
| 24 | NANCY Hamlyn Rae McArthur , widow of Lord Hoy of Leith , died at the Western General Hospital , Edinburgh , yesterday after a short illness . |
| 25 | Gibson died at the Royal Naval Hospital , Plymouth , 22 July 1983 . |
| 26 | Ms Stott died at the state-run Medical Center of Louisiana . |
| 27 | She stared at the still blue waters of the loch , overhung by weeping willows in their fresh spring greenery . |
| 28 | He stared at the low wooden fence and the pure sward of snow yellowed by the lights , and at the low wire fence and at the high wire fence and at the high wooden fence . |
| 29 | Tilda stared at the brilliant golden-beaked bird , about which there was something frightening . |
| 30 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |