Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In contrast , macerated stillbirths were underrepresented in the stillbirths that occurred at general practitioner units while deaths due to asphyxia in labour were overrepresented . |
| 7 | Her carriage was graceful , her movements quick and deft ; there was animation in her face and a slight catch in her voice that hinted at suppressed laughter . |
| 8 | Today I have with me Mrs. Julia Knight and Dr. Michael Eraut , who , together with Tony Becher , have recently completed a study that looked at parental involvement in primary schools . |
| 9 | Propagating contractions were those that appeared at adjacent recording sites within 30 seconds of each other . |
| 10 | Sharpe saw one cannon-ball 's passage marked by the flickering of the rye stalks in a darkening line that shot at extraordinary speed across the field behind him . |
| 11 | In the case of cells that absorbed at short wavelengths , we checked that the pigment was photolabile by repeating the absorbance measurements after bleaching the cell with white light for 5min . |
| 12 | Kate was sitting on one of the two deep sofas that stood at right angles to the fireplace . |
| 13 | The main part of the chamber was taken up by a table , long and black and battered , that stood at right angles to the sergeant 's desk and had about half a dozen unpadded chairs around it . |
| 14 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 15 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 16 | Even where workers moved away from their villages for good , most maintained contact with their places of origin and visited at regular intervals . |
| 17 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 18 | After his appointment in 1631 as Chief Justice of the southern forests , the Earl of Holland took over the direction of the Forest Eyre , and presided at subsequent justice Seats . |
| 19 | July 19 : Cessna 180J N9962N unable to climb out of canyon and crashed at New Castle , Wyoming . |
| 20 | In patients with heart failure , catecholamine concentrations are increased at rest and at low levels of exercise , and attenuated at maximum exercise . |
| 21 | The book of the Gospels is laid on the shoulders of the newly chosen bishop , and opened at random , and a finger laid on the page — ’ |
| 22 | The USSR 's essential military needs are met by a network of bilateral treaties entered into years before the founding of the WTO : treaties which have been supplemented by similar agreements between the individual East European countries and renewed at periodic intervals over the years . |
| 23 | He had paid special attention to the hammerers ; they were all decorated with various kinds of facial hair ranging from pencil thin , Ronald Coleman moustaches to curly , Ancient Assyrian style full sets of ringlets , and their diminutive , painted jackets were striped , starred , arrowed and dotted at random . |
| 24 | He heard a fountain play , and marvelled at white stucco terraces ablaze with a riot of assorted bougainvillaea whilst smartly uniformed staff served a wealthy and sophisticated clientèle . |
| 25 | She sang old songs , and giggled at remembered stories . |
| 26 | She became a teacher and taught at various schools including the Special School and the Beverley School for the Deaf . |
| 27 | She made it to the staircase , and dashed at random back into the bulk of the house . |
| 28 | One afternoon she had lurked in the medical bookshop at the top of Gower Street and looked at glowing colour plates of carcinomas . |
| 29 | Dr Robert Runcie visited the Vatican archives and looked at original documents relating to the split between the the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in the sixteenth century . |
| 30 | There is a fundamental difference between the behaviour of lithosphere capped with oceanic crust ( oceanic lithosphere ) and that covered with continental crust ( continental lithosphere ) since only oceanic lithosphere can be generated at mid-oceanic ridges and subducted at oceanic trenches . |