Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter looked admiringly at the other two who have been preserved long past their life expectancy . |
| 2 | A major exchange of exhibitions of antiquities starts this month when the George Ortiz Collection travels to the Hermitage in return for a pick of objects from museums in the former USSR , the latter showing initially at the Kunsthaus Zurich . |
| 3 | The Chinese lashed out at the Nobel Prize Committee for meddling in China 's affairs and ‘ hurting the Chinese people 's feelings ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I see nothing to celebrate , ’ said Charlotte Feaver , the first to sit down at the table despite what lay upon it . |
| 5 | As the motor car gathered speed , the Annamese flailed wildly at the windshield until the glass splintered in the recruiter 's face , blinding him . |
| 6 | Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 8 | The oriental gazed down at the broken body of his defeated enemy . |
| 9 | There will be plenty of time for the softhearted to recover back at the hotel . |
| 10 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 11 | The seneschal looked briefly at the quivering attendant being looked after by the others , then he shrugged and said something to the under-cook , who quickly got back down off the stool and turned to the others . |
| 12 | The LX comes in at the expected 34″ scale length . |
| 13 | All attempts by the parents to have a Lydia or a Charles would be doomed to failure : one Lydia just lived to see her first birthday — the first two years of life seeming to be the most dangerous by far for the poor little infants — and the next passed away at the age of three , baptised at St John 's but buried by the Baptists of Badcox Lane . |