Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 2 | He was still up when the theatre eventually stopped at three-forty , and returned with the S.S.O. The latter was in theatre clothes , with his green cap pushed back on his red head and his mask limp round his neck . |
| 3 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 4 | But many people only laughed at these stories . |
| 5 | For a moment , they merely stared at one another ; then Ross began to walk away . |
| 6 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 7 | The boy said nothing , only looked at both of us with wide-open eyes , but there were no tears despite the pain . |
| 8 | The two witches suddenly looked at each other in horror . |
| 9 | We report a formerly healthy boy who suddenly died at 11 months after a Reye-like syndrome . |
| 10 | I personally spoke at countless gatherings , from twenty suited businessmen at their weekly lunch to 200 noisy schoolchildren packed in a hall . |
| 11 | BRENDA LEE was only 15 when Sweet Nothings charted number four in 1960 , but the little girl from Lithonia , Georgia , sensibly stayed at high school for another three years before taking up show business full-time . |
| 12 | The garrison finally capitulated at 4 pm , enabling the Duke to write complacently : ‘ Now we may have the happiness to say that this part of the kingdom is clear of all the rebels . ’ |
| 13 | A Church already existed at Old Chiswick , for the folk who lived along that part of the River Thames , or used the ferry crossing which was just west of the eyot there . |
| 14 | I just glanced at both your hands earlier on , just glanced , you know , and I seemed to see something quite unexpected written there . |
| 15 | The coelurosaurs , he said , normally walked at 5 mph but could run at up to 8 mph . |
| 16 | Zack finally rang at 1.20 p.m. , the height of the lunch-time rush-hour , while Laing was finishing his coffee and Moss was entranced by a new child-abuse movie fresh in from Amsterdam . |
| 17 | Symbolically , he allowed his father to have a pauper burial , but when his mother finally died at 97 , ‘ I buried her . ’ |
| 18 | In a pagan world which was full of gods and where men and women encountered the divine at every turn , there was no need for the mystical disciplines to help people to cultivate a sense of presence and unity : they already felt at one with the world . |
| 19 | We finally debated at great length whether it would be possible to avoid making explicit reference to the Director . |
| 20 | 'E just looked at all the people for a minute without saying anythink . |
| 21 | But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing . |
| 22 | We just looked at each other . |
| 23 | She had n't really given him time to explain , just looked at that horrible creature prancing about in the hall all sexed up , and assumed the worst . |
| 24 | Therefore , if I just looked at some of those policy teams that I referred to in my presentation , I would expect , and it 's happening , that we would be taking on board , in each of those policy teams , the policy development work that 's applicable to Europe . |
| 25 | I just looked at this piece of paper in horror and was pounced on . |
| 26 | Political debate soon raged at different levels throughout Korean society ; an intoxicating sense of freedom prevailed . |
| 27 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 28 | In pre-Victorian times Camberwell was a middle-class suburb covering the 4,450 acres of the ancient parish of St Giles , which lay about 12 miles south of London Bridge ; its population in 1841 already stood at 39,868 . |
| 29 | Mr Logan , 54 , said : ‘ He normally stayed at top hotels . |
| 30 | They duly arrived at 9.30 in spite of torrential rain , wind , vivid lightning and unusually severe thunder . |