Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , Miss Thomas was breathing and a pulse was still discernible but , according to a statement from an inspector at the station , she stopped breathing a minute or so before an ambulance arrived at 1.33 a.m . |
| 2 | The car arrived at two . |
| 3 | The formal sitting began at one o'clock the following day . |
| 4 | The attempt began at 2 a.m. with an assault on Dodan Barracks on Ikoyi Island in Lagos , the headquarters of the military government . |
| 5 | In 1959 the CNET submitted to the committee a research programme budgeted at 7 billion francs over six years . |
| 6 | The President looked at one of the papers before him . |
| 7 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 8 | After carefully exploring a variety of different theoretical approaches to explaining government growth , the study looked at seven different policy areas — public assistance , elementary and secondary education , higher education , environment , unemployment , libraries and fire protection — and examined who or what was important in the process of governmental growth . |
| 9 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 10 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 11 | By the time the next session of parliament began in December , the stock stood at 191 . |
| 12 | By 1984 that figure stood at 27 per cent ( CSO , 1981 ; 1987 ) . |
| 13 | By the outbreak of war , with the Boy Scouts riding along on the crest of a wave , the figure stood at 150,000 . |
| 14 | AFHQ 's response came at 1857 hrs that afternoon [ KP 228 ] : " Agree all Yugoslav nationals in Eighth Army Area to be returned unless involves use of force , otherwise evacuation to Distone ( Italy ) in accordance with FX 77268 of 17 May . " |
| 15 | Not the best reason for flying home , but oh God , she was sick of the subzero temperatures , the fact that the sun rose at ten in the morning and set at two in the afternoon . |
| 16 | Car engine rated at fifty horsepower |
| 17 | Clearance came at 10 am which made it difficult to get to Bangkok before dark , so we carried our own fuel to make sure we could continue from Rangoon . |
| 18 | The crash happened at 2 pm on the A3 at Burpham , near Guildford , Surrey . |
| 19 | The Lab found properly locked when the Assistant Police Liaison Officer and the young C.O. arrived at eight-thirty this morning . |
| 20 | Work began at seven in the morning and went on until the time , as the station-master put it , ‘ when the work is finished ’ , usually seven in the evening . |
| 21 | The decline in military and civilian manpower employed in the Services , shown in figure 2 , has followed a similar pattern , but with one important difference : whereas military manpower stabilized at 320,000 after Roy Mason 's |
| 22 | ( c ) The El Salvador Human Rights Campaign discovered at 1 o'clock one day that Henry Kissinger was due to pay a flying visit to London . |
| 23 | The crew panto began at 11 p.m. with thunder and lightning and a large hairy flyman wearing my Red Queen dress , crown and high heels . |
| 24 | The battle began at three in the morning and continued uninterrupted until past daybreak . |
| 25 | John 's gruelling run started at 2 p.m. and along the course he was joined by several of his colleagues from the Metropolitan Police in Enfield . |
| 26 | Adam chuckled to himself as the four-seater Piper Arrow flew at two thousand feet across German airspace . |
| 27 | Quinn stood in the booth facing away from the street pretending to consult the telephone directories until the machine rang at two minutes after eight . |
| 28 | Phar Lap started at 6–4 , Spanish Play 3–1 , Joe Flores and Cabezo were coupled on 13–2 , and Reveille Boy was 72–10 . |
| 29 | In the subsequent period up to 1973 when the rate for the whole economy was 3.7 per cent , the distributive services shot ahead to 4.5 per cent whereas the financial sector trailed at 2.9 per cent and miscellaneous services limped behind at 1.5 per cent . |
| 30 | What physical relationship he had with her two brothers and a sister she could n't be sure , but for her , the sexual abuse started at seven . |