Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 2 | As the 1987 Vienna OPEC conference approached , there was further talk of a price increase , although the mainstream preference was for waiting until demand stood at a level capable of sustaining one . |
| 3 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 4 | The world No 1 's five-shot overnight lead was ripped apart by Australia 's Great White Shark , who fumbled a 3ft putt on the last green before Faldo won at the first extra hole . |
| 5 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 6 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 7 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 8 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |
| 9 | Buchanan stood up , putting on his coat as Warden stood at the same time . |
| 10 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
| 11 | HE was the butt of jokes as England flopped at the European Championship . |
| 12 | Christina arranged dinner with Celia , then picked some mimosa and bright-lavender periwinkle flowers for the dining-table , which she was arranging when Stephen appeared at the french windows of the dining-room , looming out of the lengthening shadows as dusk turned quickly into night . |
| 13 | As delegates arrived at the Grand Kremlin Palace , hundreds of pro and anti-Yeltsin demonstrators rallied on Red Square . |
| 14 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 15 | In a second , as Suzanne looked at the seated pair , Franca realised something . |
| 16 | Just as Jos glanced at the incessant downpour and said . |
| 17 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 18 | Yesterday , the couple were apart as Diana lunched at the Brazilian embassy , with her close friend Lucia Flecha de Lima , wife of the ambassador to London . |
| 19 | At L.A. County , Rusty built the profile of the museum through big exhibitions … just as Carter did at the National Gallery ’ . |
| 20 | When Thornton started at the Daily Mirror he found the usual chronic Fleet Street over-staffing , and began to swing the axe to enable the paper to stand on its own two feet and ward off the inevitable predators , such as Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell . |