Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This broke at speed , Oenomaus was thrown and killed , and Pelops got the princess and the kingdom , and gave his name to the Peloponnese . |
| 2 | Some dealt at length with aims and objectives , others focused on organisation and communication . |
| 3 | The unemployed stood at street corners , dejected . |
| 4 | Sick with fear , she watched helplessly as , at a shouted signal , the three rushed at fitzAlan in a concerted attack that looked like succeeding through sheer weight of numbers . |
| 5 | J. McL died at sea of the plague . |
| 6 | It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 7 | They all came at Christmas . |
| 8 | It all began at lunch . |
| 9 | It is evident that although studies up until the 1970s looked at youth in terms of class divisions , it is now also important to bring in unemployment , gender and race as further dimensions of disadvantage — dimensions which affect young people in particular ways . |
| 10 | She was , fundamentally , a good person but the side we all saw at work was the side that could not cope with the constant expansion of the business . |
| 11 | Mobs burned tyres in the streets , and the prudent stayed at home while soldiers drove around firing their weapons . |
| 12 | By 1815 Britain was exporting 4 yards of cotton cloth for every 3 used at home , and between 1794 – 6 and 1804 – 6 cotton goods accounted for 84 per cent of the increase in manufactured exports . |
| 13 | e ) what value would the number team read if 6 stayed at home and all the players had to move down one place ? |
| 14 | When she first arrived at SIS as a student , Anne had an affair with some chap in her year and when it broke up , she decided she wanted to leave . |
| 15 | Er , I did n't have any idea er that I was going to start , obviously , er , but er , I first started at home in the backroom and had letters all over the floor . |
| 16 | ‘ I remember when you first started at SIS . |
| 17 | Jonathan Alexander first looked at manuscript illumination in Oxford in 1959 . |
| 18 | And as a bonus , IRAS should be able to send back information for at least nine months , instead of the seven expected at launch . |
| 19 | RUNNING last looked at pulse meters in July 1986 , when we found that the most reliable meter — and also the most expensive — was the Polar Electro Sport Tester . |
| 20 | Apple Computer Inc said at CeBIT it plans to start shipping Newtons in the summer at a price ‘ significantly lower ’ than $1,000 , aiming initially at business users : features will include handwriting recognition , diaries and notepads , paperless facsimile messaging and wireless message transfer , Apple says . |