Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But worse still , just as the Poet and the Mistress connived at each other 's deception in 138 , just as the Poet connived at the Friend 's deception in 93 , so in 112 the Poet is inviting the Friend to complete the circle : ‘ For what care I who calls me well or ill , /So you o'er-green my bad , my good allow ? ’ |
| 2 | It was the largest iron roof-span erected at that time , with arches composed of wrought-iron deck-beam spanning 153 feet 6 inches . |
| 3 | His mouth twisted at some private irony . |
| 4 | But nobody could get the movie made at that time , and the question now was whether Val was n't too old for the part . |
| 5 | Astronomers can estimate how much neutral sodium gas lies in front of the star from the precise amount of light absorbed at these wavelengths . |
| 6 | The shores rang to the sound of his skates against the ice , a resonant hollow warble drawn at each stride from the depths of the lake . |
| 7 | Consequently the pull-out torque falls with increasing stepping rate for two basic reasons : ( a ) the phase currents are lower , so the motor torque produced at any rotor position is reduced , ( b ) phase currents may flow at rotor positions which produce a negative phase torque . |
| 8 | Faintly , above the moaning of the wind , they heard a cracked wheezing , the unskilled sequence of chords of a sea-shanty played at half speed . |
| 9 | Fortunately a gong sounded at that moment and Bertha sprang up with surprising alacrity and led the way to the dining room , where Randolph was already at the sideboard carving the meat . |
| 10 | Are the college involved at all ? |
| 11 | This is difficult to explain since when a fully saturated complex is half dissociated it will have the same occupancy as a complex generated at half saturation . |
| 12 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 13 | Howard has suggested that threats of force directed at any person for whom the complainant ‘ has or is presumed to have strong affections ’ should negative consent . |
| 14 | But I would n't have my photograph taken at that time at all . |
| 15 | Eden Hall was extensively rebuilt in 1935 or thereabouts , and much of the original fabric removed at that time , today it is a girls ' school . |
| 16 | The banking partnership ended at some date in the 1720s , Freame continuing alone , then in partnership with his son Joseph , at what later became 56 Lombard Street . |
| 17 | For all the apparent scepticism levelled at these bodies from other quarters , the senior financial officers canvassed for their views of the ICAS research study found little to question in its setting out of the existing problems and the responsibilities for central elements of corporate governance . |
| 18 | Once clear of the shock of seeing the penis photographed at such close range , these images do more to suggest intimacy and collaboration between model and artist than exploitation . |
| 19 | If the number of fire engines which turned up was correlated with the amount of damage done at those fires , a positive relationship would probably be discovered . |
| 20 | That 's what the American artist Kosuth maintains happened over the striking resemblance between his installation presented at this year 's Documenta in Kassel ( closed 29 September ) , and the installation created by Claudio Parmiggiani three years ago in Milan . |
| 21 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 22 | This House was asserting that the mere existence of a mistake of law made at some earlier stage does not vitiate the actual decision made : what must be shown is a relevant error of law , i.e. , an error in the actual making of the decision which affected the decision itself . |
| 23 | And with a miserable face like hers I 'm surprised you ever get any work done at all . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ On the other hand , if she were here I would n't get any work done at all . ’ |
| 25 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 26 | All the equipment used at each session is new and sterile and never re-used . |
| 27 | A kata performed at this level has been called ‘ moving Zen ’ . |
| 28 | The quantity administered at any given time was determined by a whole range of factors , causing it to oscillate greatly . |
| 29 | For while she was to some degree confused at that precise moment about the importance of keeping a job that paid well , she knew , whatever else was hazy , that she was very much in love with him . |
| 30 | Staff at Harwell 's Lloyds Bank were asked to nominate the customer who in their opinion had smiled and been the most cheerful during an eight week ‘ smile ’ campaign run at all Oxfordshire branches . |