Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Fielding , whose sister lived at a cottage now called Widcombe Lodge , knew the Bennets well . |
| 2 | In the Netherlands , however , it appears that for much of the past 30 years , a substantial reduction in levels of imprisonment occurred with no greater rise in crime than occurred in Britain ; and that reduction occurred at a time of rising crime in Holland . |
| 3 | In the United States government support for organised labour came at a later date than in Europe ( only in the mid-1930s ) , and even then it still remained open to employers to try to persuade their own workers ( short of using overt coercion ) not to vote for union bargaining rights ( i.e. they still maintained ‘ an ethical mandate to continue with their belligerent behaviour towards unions ’ ( Adams , 1981 , p. 287 ) ) . |
| 4 | The first official and public indication that the Soviet Union was seeking large-scale Western aid came at a press conference between Gorbachev and Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on May 22 , when Gorbachev made plain his desire to attend the July G-7 meeting . |
| 5 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 6 | Bob knew that , whether she called herself Mad Maggie or Margaret Stanhope , friendship came at a price . |
| 7 | The latest theft happened at a Shell garage in Marlborough Road at Swindon . |
| 8 | The tragedy happened at a transport depot in the town . |
| 9 | Her career in geography began at a time when , in Britain , this field was still among the less fully organized of the sciences . |
| 10 | The delegation looked at a range of hotel operations including food preparation , customer care programmes , sales and marketing and budgeting . |
| 11 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 12 | The study looked at a combination of zidovudine with dideoxycytidine , an experimental drug manufactured by Hoffmann-La Roche . |
| 13 | Suddenly , a light appeared at a window and a terrified face peered out . |
| 14 | Billions were needed to improve the urban infrastructure , a black mayor said at a Clinton-Brown debate , $6 billion , for a start , for a project in New Jersey . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm 28 now , so this is my last chance , ’ the St Albans boxer said at a press conference yesterday to announce his clash with champion Steve Robinson in Cardiff on July 10 . |
| 16 | The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room . |
| 17 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 18 | The decision came at a time when 1,500,000 besieged refugees in the city of Asmara , the last government stronghold in Eritrea , faced imminent death by starvation . |
| 19 | The decision came at a meeting of the new 14-member Consultative Group on Indonesia in Paris on July 16-17 , chaired by the World Bank , set up after Indonesia dissolved a Netherlands-led aid forum in March in protest at alleged Netherlands interference in its internal affairs [ see p. 38868 ] . |
| 20 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 21 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 22 | Based on the shape of this receptive field , they then search for the stimulus that gives the best response from it , and in Figure 7 you see that one particular cell responded best to movement of a bar oriented at a particular angle , and also that it only responded when this bar moved in one direction . |
| 23 | The first skirmish over the national security issue came at a closed hearing on Jan. 11 when it was reported that the prosecution had accused the lawyer of one of Noriega 's co-defendants of improperly disclosing classified information when making an earlier request for access to National Security Council records . |
| 24 | The proposal came at a meeting organised by the National Consumer 's Council , a representative body established by statute in 1975 . |
| 25 | THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 1992 — McDermott 's withdrawal came at a bad time : an anticipatory profile of the Queensland firebreather leads the 92nd edition , followed by a réumé of others born outside the county line . |
| 26 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 27 | Angel smouldered at a distance , losing no chance to bitch her up . |
| 28 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes watching TV . |
| 30 | The crash happened at a notorious accident blackspot . |