Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the days , weeks and months dragged on and the fine weather turned to biting snow , preventing builders or delivery vans from approaching Remaisnil , the frustrations for Laura and Bernard became at times overwhelming , One of the lowest moments for Laura was an interview she agreed to give to Susan Raven of the The Sunday Times , for ‘ A Life in the Day of ’ series . |
| 2 | The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! ) |
| 3 | In September Balbinder started at Cedars . |
| 4 | However , Saturday 's setback at Celtic Park marked the first time in a year Goram had been in a losing Rangers team ( he was injured when Dundee won at Dens Park in August ) , and the assured nature of his performances at domestic , European and international level have helped gather an army of voters who could make the goalkeeper the first since Hamish McAlpine ( in 1985 ) to win the Scottish Football Writers ' Association Player of the Year award . |
| 5 | In the debate Gorbachev had at times unashamedly used his position as Supreme Soviet Chairman to bully and cajole deputies into accepting his arguments about the precariousness of his reform programme and the urgent need to " enhance the mechanism of executive authority , in order to ensure that laws work " . |
| 6 | During Yeltsin 's campaign for the presidency Gorbachev had at times quite blatantly attempted to thwart him . |
| 7 | Cimetidine used at concentrations from 10 - 5 to 10 -10 M had no significant effect on the basal growth of MKN45 , MKN45G , C170 , and LoVo cells as assessed by both 7 5 [ Se ] selenomethionine uptake and direct cell counts ( data not shown ) . |
| 8 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 9 | The Derby was the first time Nijinsky started at odds against — and if his full background story had been known , the odds would have been a good deal longer . |
| 10 | Marshall died at Hallsteads 6 June 1845 . |
| 11 | Alyssia looked at Piers with a puzzled frown . |
| 12 | Of the major studies of the research thesis , Boyer looked at theses in the fields of botany , chemical engineering , chemistry and psychology , from three US universities during the period 1963 to 1967 . |
| 13 | Dahl 's 1961 study of New Haven looked at decisions taken in three areas — education . |
| 14 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 15 | What made matters worse was that the police were so badly paid that they could be recruited only from poor , country districts and lacked the sophistication , education and even , Mahmoud suspected at times , mother-wit of city people . |
| 16 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 17 | After the fair , the village had regained the wholeness which , Mary perceived at times such as this , was vitally precious to her : perhaps this was her love . |
| 18 | Jay swore at saucepans , whirled eight things together . |
| 19 | For the first time Simone looked at Piers . |
| 20 | Dedekind looked at collections of numbers gathered into a completed whole , this concept being essential in his construction ( Section 4.4 ) of the real numbers on the basis of the rational numbers . |
| 21 | Nutty looked at Nails and thought for one awful moment he was going to burst into tears . |
| 22 | Britain seemed at times to be close to open class war ; Mrs Thatcher denounced ‘ the enemy within ’ . |
| 23 | Christina looked at tons of coral-stone blocks smashed to smithereens . |
| 24 | However , in statements after his election Polozkov appeared at pains to emphasis his loyalty to Gorbachev and support for perestroika , and to refute his reputation for conservatism . |
| 25 | Nearly all the accidents in Darlington occurred at junctions , when cyclists were waiting to set off or just starting to pedal . |
| 26 | Nearly all the accidents in Darlington occurred at junctions where cyclists were waiting to set off , or just starting to pedal , said Mr Hillcoat . |
| 27 | He noted that when Harris sampled at weekends it found many more Tories than on weekdays . |
| 28 | John Davies screamed at police : ‘ Get back or I will cut her , ’ when he grabbed hold of terrified telephonist Alma Rodham , 50 . |
| 29 | Spruce said at intervals , ‘ Are you sure , doctor ? ’ |
| 30 | Churchill had at moments in the First World War manifested great strategic prescience ; his intuition swung into action even more powerfully the second time round . |