Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 2 | The crucial events around which the case centred occurred at a dinner party given by the General , when Aitken and some others were present . |
| 3 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 4 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 5 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 6 | In the late nineteenth century , when vast quantities of grain were shipped into British ports from overseas , the milling industry became concentrated at ports and in towns with good canal , rail or road links . |
| 7 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 8 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 9 | Under the terms of the agreement , representatives from these five countries would help oversee the movement of millions of tonnes of grain and other food aid expected to arrive at South African ports . |
| 10 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 11 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 12 | This divergence began to emerge at a very early stage . |
| 13 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 14 | Attacks on some of Iran 's smaller towns and cities occurred comparatively early in the war , but apart from the first two days , it is not clear when either side decided to strike at population centres as a strategic option . |
| 15 | Someone on the roof started shooting at her . |
| 16 | Then , as it slid over Jekub 's angular shape , its own weight started to tug at it … |
| 17 | Grief had swung at him and given him two red eyes . |
| 18 | His ex-wife had cried at him for three years . |
| 19 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 20 | Our exploration of the coast had begun at Saltburn , an elegant if truncated testimony to Victorian values and market forces . |
| 21 | The prosecution accepted that the notebook proved Mr Thompson had been involved in the distribution of obscene material , a charge the countess had levelled at him earlier in the trial but that he had denied . |
| 22 | The Princesse had looked at her curiously . |
| 23 | The case concerned a rusty old car which had belonged to one M. The structure of the car had rusted at the sides of the engine compartment and M had attempted to repair this with plastic body filler . |
| 24 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 25 | The car had stopped at the quarry in the pitch darkness , and , Mr O'Donnell said , he had been dragged out and beaten again by the men , including McPherson . |
| 26 | By the time Bodie reached the dusk-lit Embassy in Kensington , the limousine had arrived at its front steps . |
| 27 | The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months . |
| 28 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 29 | Her business mind had jumped at the chance of a spot of international acclaim . |
| 30 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |