Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless , the fateful twitching stilled at last . |
| 2 | He was engaging in a war of nerves with her , Isabel realised at last , but he did n't remember . |
| 3 | The need for centralization of the royal court and parliament led at last to the choice and subsequent development of Edinburgh as Scotland 's capital city . |
| 4 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 5 | The MP-2 line uses custom 32-bit RISCs rated at 133 MIPS and are configured with as many as 16,000 of the things . |
| 6 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 7 | His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave . |
| 8 | At last Fitzosbert stopped at one cell door and clicked his fingers . |
| 9 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world . |
| 11 | Ellen asked at last . |
| 12 | Suvarov had much to say about the territorial ambitions of Marshal Stalin and David interrupted at one moment to ask whether Suvarov had ever met him . |
| 13 | Malpass beamed at that . |
| 14 | Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin announced at official talks later on March 4 that Turkey would extend loans and would help with Uzbekistan 's conversion from Cyrillic to Roman script , and that Uzbek banknotes would be printed in Turkey . |
| 15 | Blimey , 'is eyes bulged at that , 'e looked blue murder at me . |
| 16 | Hens pecked at unwanted rouble notes from piles of sacks dumped on the railway lines for no clear reason . |
| 17 | The Dalek Killer winked at Ace as he staggered past her couch and towards the front of the little craft . |
| 18 | Zeyer had come on as a defender to protect the score when Kaiserslautern levelled at 1–1 , but his role changed dramatically when Wednesday immediately hit back to make it 2–1 . |
| 19 | In Clwyd , the terminal at Point of Ayr promised at most 132 jobs for the duration of the drilling process , she said . |
| 20 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 21 | The French report , via the International Red Cross , stated that the aircraft crashed at 00.30 hours on September 18 . |
| 22 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 23 | My understanding is that the European parliament has got so many buildings now including a great new building at Brussels built at huge cost , enormous cost and a new building they want to build at Strasbourg . |
| 24 | RIVAS OF BLOOD STEMMED AT LAST |
| 25 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 26 | The pyjamas fastened at last , Ashley rose shakily to her feet . |
| 27 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 28 | The UN closed Sarajevo airport , a vital aid lifeline for the Bosnian capital 's 380,000 population , after shells exploded at either end of the runway during fighting yesterday . |
| 29 | Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay . |
| 30 | Danes are in effect voting on a deal negotiated at last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh , which gave them opt-outs on sensitive issues such as a common currency , joint security , police controls and citizenship rules . |