Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 2 | Whereas er in erm a factory , I believe , they would have had to have er the rooms whitewashed , colourwashed or whitewashed at certain times , we were n't bound up with any regulations , then . |
| 3 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 4 | But many sidle in , hiding behind a shopping list of the equipment they think they need ( often drawn up by a friend ) or picked at random from a magazine ) . |
| 5 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 6 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 7 | Even where workers moved away from their villages for good , most maintained contact with their places of origin and visited at regular intervals . |
| 8 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 9 | After his appointment in 1631 as Chief Justice of the southern forests , the Earl of Holland took over the direction of the Forest Eyre , and presided at subsequent justice Seats . |
| 10 | July 19 : Cessna 180J N9962N unable to climb out of canyon and crashed at New Castle , Wyoming . |
| 11 | In patients with heart failure , catecholamine concentrations are increased at rest and at low levels of exercise , and attenuated at maximum exercise . |
| 12 | The book of the Gospels is laid on the shoulders of the newly chosen bishop , and opened at random , and a finger laid on the page — ’ |
| 13 | The USSR 's essential military needs are met by a network of bilateral treaties entered into years before the founding of the WTO : treaties which have been supplemented by similar agreements between the individual East European countries and renewed at periodic intervals over the years . |
| 14 | He had paid special attention to the hammerers ; they were all decorated with various kinds of facial hair ranging from pencil thin , Ronald Coleman moustaches to curly , Ancient Assyrian style full sets of ringlets , and their diminutive , painted jackets were striped , starred , arrowed and dotted at random . |
| 15 | He heard a fountain play , and marvelled at white stucco terraces ablaze with a riot of assorted bougainvillaea whilst smartly uniformed staff served a wealthy and sophisticated clientèle . |
| 16 | She sang old songs , and giggled at remembered stories . |
| 17 | She became a teacher and taught at various schools including the Special School and the Beverley School for the Deaf . |
| 18 | She made it to the staircase , and dashed at random back into the bulk of the house . |
| 19 | One afternoon she had lurked in the medical bookshop at the top of Gower Street and looked at glowing colour plates of carcinomas . |
| 20 | Dr Robert Runcie visited the Vatican archives and looked at original documents relating to the split between the the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | There is a fundamental difference between the behaviour of lithosphere capped with oceanic crust ( oceanic lithosphere ) and that covered with continental crust ( continental lithosphere ) since only oceanic lithosphere can be generated at mid-oceanic ridges and subducted at oceanic trenches . |
| 22 | Where characters appeared and disappeared at random , and the plot was therefore ever-changing and never got anywhere . |
| 23 | I mean he went off to Italy and bought at great expense a wire saw , have had a wire saw for years and that has n't proved successful . |
| 24 | Robyn entered the tiny shop and bought at random , grabbing anything that was familiar — an odd assortment of things that would sustain her with the least amount of effort , paying her money to the assistant vaguely , absent-mindedly . |
| 25 | To give himself a moment to recover control , he looked again out of the window and spoke at random . |
| 26 | He turned his head and glared at Sabine . |
| 27 | Scenes using the ships were then animated and shot at high resolution on to 35mm film . |
| 28 | Upon returning to London he joined the Oriental Club and resided at Upper Belgrave Street , where he died 27 February 1843 . |
| 29 | He continued as a civilian in GCHQ after the war and retired at assistant secretary level in 1954 . |
| 30 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales went to lunch together yesterday , but arrived separately and sat at different tables . |