Example sentences of "ceased [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 2 | Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day . |
| 3 | The wires of the fence were eventually replaced with mesh , and Halima having tried once , and finding that her leg did not go through , ceased to paw at the fence for oats . |
| 4 | Owen never ceased to marvel at the way in which he combined incredible ingenuity within the rules with total lack of curiosity as to what went on beyond them . |
| 5 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |