Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subsequent reconciliation of the bourgeoisie to " the coming of democracy " owed much to the fact that these fears ( or hopes ) were not realized , or realized at best only in part . |
| 2 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 3 | This is unfortunate as these implied terms are a very useful weapon for the buyer and , in the case of consumer sales , the implied terms can not be excluded or modified at all . |
| 4 | This liability , under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , can not be limited or excluded at all — see paragraphs 9–6 to 9–14 above . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most convincing illustration of the power of the monarchical idea and the extent to which it was still unchallenged is the way in which almost everywhere opposition to rulers , insofar as it was formed or organized at all , tended to centre around the heir to the throne or at least some member of the royal family and to use him as a figurehead . |
| 6 | Whereas er in erm a factory , I believe , they would have had to have er the rooms whitewashed , colourwashed or whitewashed at certain times , we were n't bound up with any regulations , then . |
| 7 | Eva spoke or sang at all three funerals . |
| 8 | Almost all the media coverage would be about her and Charles , how far apart they stood , whether they spoke or looked at each other . |
| 9 | Now and then he got hold of a book , or looked at some prints , or chatted with a local worthy , but it was a hard life and they were in narrow circumstances . |
| 10 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 11 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 12 | When he waved or smiled at those he knew , they turned away , as if they did n't know him . |
| 13 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 14 | They could be seen in constant arguments in every European court , as in the past , about the relative positions of diplomats on formal and even informal occasions , their placing at table at meals where more than one was present , the precise way in which they were conducted to their first audience with the ruler to whom they were accredited , when and whether they stood or sat at such audiences , the precise moment when they or the ruler removed their hats , and a variety of such tremendous niceties . |
| 15 | But many sidle in , hiding behind a shopping list of the equipment they think they need ( often drawn up by a friend ) or picked at random from a magazine ) . |
| 16 | The first of France 's war pilots flew in Blériots that cruised at fifty m.p.h. and took an hour and a half to climb to 6,000 feet . |
| 17 | Please let us know about EVERY class that operated at any time in 1988 , whether it was only a couple of weeks in January or a short summer course ( children or adults ) and take the highest number on roll at any time in the year . |
| 18 | Please make sure that EVERY class that operated at any time during 1990 is included ( even if now not running ) and give the maximum number on the roll . |
| 19 | I have no enthusiasm for returning to the sort of legislation that applied at that time . |
| 20 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
| 21 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 22 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 23 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
| 24 | In contrast , macerated stillbirths were underrepresented in the stillbirths that occurred at general practitioner units while deaths due to asphyxia in labour were overrepresented . |
| 25 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 26 | It was departing from this grandiose encounter that Rose at last found Auguste , his head still full of exalted plans for the humble whiting . |
| 27 | These include the mosaics from the Blackfriars site and 50-52 , St. Nicholas Street , Leicester ( pls. 1 and 5a , respectively ) ; the mosaic of room 5 , Great Witcombe ; that found at 10-18 , Eastgate Street , Gloucester ; and the fragment from Locke 's Timber Yard , Cirencester ( pI . |
| 28 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 29 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 30 | When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea . |