Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 2 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 3 | Ronni was still fizzing with indignation — how dared he make fun of her ? — when , sure enough , a car arrived at the front door , laden with dishes dovered in tin foil . |
| 4 | A hound spoke at the far end of the wood . |
| 5 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 6 | The PKK claimed responsibility for two incidents in Istanbul on Aug. 28 in which a ferry was set on fire , damaging a bridge , and a bomb exploded at the British consulate-general . |
| 7 | They were still evacuating the area when a device exploded at the Northern Bank . |
| 8 | ‘ Nikos ! ’ she called , gesturing excitedly , waving the cloth as a head appeared at an upper window . |
| 9 | A tomcat sprang at a mounted knight , |
| 10 | He had just reached the box when a man on a bicycle appeared at the far end of the street . |
| 11 | A woman stood at the shallow end , her hand under the chin of a small child , encouraging it along . |
| 12 | The next morning Bathsheba and her maid Liddy were dusting some books , when a visitor arrived at the front door . |
| 13 | Or , to get at it another way , here is a miscellaneous list from my own notebook of possible motives for murder : financial gain , self-protection , to preserve status , fear , to protect a loved one , for a principle , for revenge ( but remember credibility here : only in some societies is revenge stoked up enough to lead to killing ) , the drive to power , compensation for past humiliation , removing a bar to sexual happiness ( bother the permissive society , but impediments do still exist ) , jealousy , the desire to cock a giant snook at the whole world . |
| 14 | A man appeared at a special sitting of Scarborough magistrates on Saturday accused of attempted rape . |
| 15 | A maid arrived at the 23-year-old model 's £500,000 Paris flat expecting to find her . |
| 16 | Some weeks later , a letter arrived at the little white house on the hill . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sculley said he did not believe anyone had been able to build an HDTV set at a reasonable price . |
| 19 | Moments later an official appeared at the far end of the corridor and hurried to him . |
| 20 | The chapel was small , an altar stood at the further end from the entrance we came in by . |
| 21 | An MP sat at a small table beside it . |
| 22 | Under an agreement reached at the round table in January the UDF newspaper Demokratsiya was permitted a maximum circulation of 70,000 copies a day [ see p. 37193 ] , but this compared with 760,000 copies of the BCP daily Rabotnichesko Delo . |