Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His mind had at last found its way back to its usual cast when he heard Sara 's friend talking to her . |
| 32 | The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet . |
| 33 | Many simply went in and out of the factory without showing any emotion at all , relieved that weeks of uncertainty had at last come to an end . |
| 34 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 35 | A slim example of western luxury nestled at this moment in Anna 's vagina . |
| 36 | By 1886 , two in three adult males — almost 4.5 million people — had the vote in England and Wales , whereas some 50 years earlier the electorate stood at little more than 650 000 . |
| 37 | So long as the Old Pretender remained at large an invasion of England or Scotland continued to be an ever-present possibility . |
| 38 | Light minded At last , a ( sort of ) fair report on the travellers in England . |
| 39 | By the time the next session of parliament began in December , the stock stood at 191 . |
| 40 | By 1984 that figure stood at 27 per cent ( CSO , 1981 ; 1987 ) . |
| 41 | By the outbreak of war , with the Boy Scouts riding along on the crest of a wave , the figure stood at 150,000 . |
| 42 | 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 . " |
| 43 | Though the demand from industry and society at large was for better school education , the response came at first not from schools but from Youth Training Schemes for school-leavers , organized by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 44 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 45 | The detective who found the money believed at first the notes must be forgeries . |
| 46 | The people were all obviously successful , a scene duplicated at all the tables of The Magpie : success in the City , in Whitehall , in the Ivory Towers of the great teaching hospitals , and at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 47 | A muscle near her right cheekbone fluttered at erratic intervals , and the nail polish was chipped . |
| 48 | There were 35 of us on top of the Eiger : Edwin Drummond 's Climb for the World dream realised at last . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Satirical description of a type found at all social gatherings ( in this case a group of habitués of a public-house parlour ) who holds forth in an oracular manner on public affairs . |
| 51 | But , especially , they show that whenever a siege occurred at neighbouring villages invariably suffered a s a result of heavy billeting , garrisoning , or even the mustering of armies on their greens and in their fields . |
| 52 | Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor . |
| 53 | Car engine rated at fifty horsepower |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | The crash happened at 2 pm on the A3 at Burpham , near Guildford , Surrey . |
| 56 | The Lab found properly locked when the Assistant Police Liaison Officer and the young C.O. arrived at eight-thirty this morning . |
| 57 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 |
| 60 | But when the action of splash and spray is considered , there arises the possibility of the rock bench extending above this , or , if the rocks are suitably stratified , of subsidiary benched at higher elevations . |