Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was nothing if not patriotic — that is , he only drank at pubs called the Queen 's Head or Arms . |
| 2 | Pressure generally came at moments of crisis , such as Suez in 1956 or the Irish conflict in the 1970s and 1980s , and tended to focus on particular programmes . |
| 3 | Erm David we 've just obviously completed a , a plan of your future , we just looked at areas which we |
| 4 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 5 | Then , very soon , the hunting stage when we deliberately played at savages . |
| 6 | The other curse was directed at the committee members of the local Working Men 's Club when they banned my father , on the pretext of his epilepsy , but really because he always won at cards and was n't keen to give people a chance to win their money back . |
| 7 | Soldiers also shot at mourners burying the dead at two cemeteries in Bamako . |
| 8 | They had the same friends , and they often met at parties . |
| 9 | Yet the list of play-off records he set — .650 batting average , 13 hits , 24 total bases — fails to convey the full magnitude of his achievement , coming in as he often did at moments of unbelievable pressure , and usually delivering the vital hit . |
| 10 | He often did at times of emotional crisis . |
| 11 | We even stabbed at dummies with bayonets . |
| 12 | I tried to get a lift from every vehicle that passed , but Oliver only stuck out his thumb at cars he really wanted to ride in , and sometimes even scowled at drivers whose cars he disapproved of . |
| 13 | ‘ We then looked at individuals and then started talking to four or five venture capital companies as well as merchant banks . |
| 14 | The question commonly asked at interviews , ‘ What specialty are you interested in ? ’ becomes largely irrelevant . |
| 15 | Tonight he certainly seemed at pains to play the perfect host . |
| 16 | The panel therefore looked at proposals from such institutions as the West Sussex Institute of Higher Education , Dartington College of Arts , the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance , Worcester College of Higher Education , and Ilkley College of Higher Education . |