Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen and the one spare bedroom were constantly , noisily occupied , the doorbell rang at all hours , and once , answering it , a man she had never seen struck her on the side of the head with an empty bottle and told her to leave his wife alone . |
| 2 | One day when the driver arrived at ten minutes past ten an angry customer berated him : ‘ You 're late , you should have been here ten minutes ago ! ’ |
| 3 | The structuralists looked at meaningful systems within their social context and analysed meaning as structured in a way analogous to language . |
| 4 | The PLO struck at Israeli soldiers and civilians alike , and by 1970 the Israelis were retaliating deep into Lebanon , usually against civilian targets and always with results quite out of proportion to the original Palestinian attack . |
| 5 | The study looked at all areas of the natural environment , including the management of the diverse grasslands and associated rare species , for which the Park has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest . |
| 6 | The SNCO in charge of the aircraft yelled at several tradesmen to climb up the ladder into the nose . |
| 7 | The French report , via the International Red Cross , stated that the aircraft crashed at 00.30 hours on September 18 . |
| 8 | Quinn stood in the booth facing away from the street pretending to consult the telephone directories until the machine rang at two minutes after eight . |
| 9 | The local interests of the duke and the Woodvilles coincided at several points , notably in Wales and East Anglia , but also ( briefly ) in Richmondshire , where the queen 's mother , the dowager duchess of Bedford , held one third of the honour until 1472 . |
| 10 | The local interests of the duke and the Woodvilles coincided at several points , notably in Wales and East Anglia , but also ( briefly ) in Richmondshire , where the queen 's mother , the dowager duchess of Bedford , held one third of the honour until 1472 . |
| 11 | The accident happened at Running Waters on the A181 near Durham City . |
| 12 | Twenty years ago few tailor shops were without a bottle of gin : the men drank as they liked ; one kept the score , and the publican came at certain times to replenish the gin bottle . |
| 13 | The Commons asked at various times that the perambulations should be observed , that new perambulations should be made , and that charters should be granted defining the forest limits . |
| 14 | The phone rang at regular intervals . |
| 15 | First , the studies looked at local councillors themselves - at their attitudes and perceptions , at their organization and relationship with their political party , and at their political activity . |
| 16 | But the output started at 8 volts at about 800 r.p.m. and fell to 7 volts at 2800 r.p.m. ( max r.p.m. for the engine under test ) . |
| 17 | Figure 3.1 shows a time-series of actual gross domestic product in the UK measured at 1975 prices since 1960 . |
| 18 | In order to prove the commercial value of his coal reserves in the Rhondda valley , he initiated steps to show that the steam coal of the valley lay at exploitable depths , an act which led to the astounding growth of the Rhondda . |
| 19 | Yesterday the roll stood at 107 pupils , though the school has room for 210 . |
| 20 | The IFM looked at similar systems in Germany and Czechoslovakia before making the suggestions which would also see the launch of a mjor training scheme for new anglers . |
| 21 | As the family kept vigil , the children saw at close quarters the stubborn determination of their stepmother . |