Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affair happened at the most inopportune moment . |
| 2 | Matthew Calbraith Perry , with his minuscule armada of two frigates and two sailing vessels , arrived at the heavily fortified pod of Uraga — at the very mouth of Tokyo Bay — on 8 July 1853 . |
| 3 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 4 | And then , I knocked at the very weak leg . |
| 5 | Mrs Purry generally turns up trumps , ’ he added , surprised at the rather strange effect Penelope seemed to be having on his conversation . |
| 6 | The fall of the Manchus in China hinted at the far wider rebellion that would mark the first half of the twentieth century , transforming world political geography from a handful of empires , maps on which only the primary colours were needed to show each domain , to a mass of independent States , more numerous than the ingenuity of any distinguishable colour range . |
| 7 | In 1988 , Caroline Walker — the highly respected nutritionist and health writer — died at the tragically young age of 38 . |
| 8 | WINDHOEK in South Africa , where John Muafangejo died at the tragically early age of 44 in 1987 , rings an immediate bell . |
| 9 | March 1853 and he died at the very early age of thirty-seven , on 29th . |
| 10 | He stared at the serenely impassioned garden made out of a whirl of yellow brushstrokes , a viridian impasto , a dense mass of furiously feathered lines of blue-green , isolated black pot hooks , the painfully clear orange-red spattering . |
| 11 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |
| 12 | We paused on the small bridge which led to the ticket office , I looked at the now derelict railway cottages which stood silent , lost and forlorn . |
| 13 | She cringed at the too cheerful sound of her voice . |
| 14 | Edith qualified at the very first Medau Society Teachers ' Examination in 1955 , and carried on developing classes in Essex , all the time making openings for the new teachers who were beginning to emerge . |
| 15 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 16 | She remembered his hostility through the blur of last night and glared at the annoyingly attractive face . |
| 17 | Lucy 's self-contained sophistication sipped at the ultimately silly drink . |
| 18 | Moreover , until the end of the century infant mortality remained at the deplorably high rate of 150 deaths per 1,000 live births . |