Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The 5-2 fav had drawn upsides The Vatman Cometh when that rival capsized at the final obstacle .
2 Another birdie came at the short sixth , a downhill putt of 8ft , but a bogey five at the ninth , taking him out in 36 , undermined any move up the leaderboard .
3 Another birdie came at the third as he holed from 15 feet , up then down hill , beyond the pin .
4 It is ironic that this prohibition occurred at the same time as several well-designed research studies were clearly demonstrating the efficacy of ECT .
5 I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots .
6 I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent .
7 Two of the reasons for this reputation came at the first two majors of the 1986 season — the US Masters and US Open .
8 Another interpretation is that metamorphism occurred at the same time , or post-dated thrusting , and that the frictional heating produced during thrusting contributed to the partial melting of the crust and the intrusion of granitic rocks .
9 For the mid-nineteenth-century observer all history coexisted at the same time , except for that of the ancient civilisations and empires such as classical antiquity , which had been ( literally ) buried , awaiting the spades of H. Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) in Troy and Mycenae or Flinders Petrie ( 1853–1942 ) in Egypt .
10 They had hardly digested the import of what they had seen when still more flames appeared at a third window .
11 Foster , whose own career started at the tender age of 3 , discovered 9-year-old Adam in a New York classroom : ‘ It was him wanting to be something that drew me , ’ she says .
12 The same thing happened at the Dental Hospital at the RVH during the day .
13 Less than 12 months after Steve Pate was pulled out of the Ryder Cup singles on medical grounds much the same thing happened at the recent PGA Cup match at Kildare .
14 By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history .
15 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 .
16 Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability .
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