Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent that Sunday at Littlehampton ; on the Monday I dined at one of George 's clubs — ’ |
| 2 | We stopped at one of his regular suppliers and cadged a few sea urchins , then the knife to eat them with . |
| 3 | We stopped at all of them . |
| 4 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 5 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 6 | The Prince smiled , as if to soften his sartorial orders , then gestured at one of his Dutch aides . |
| 7 | We arrived at all of the locations in good time , although the traffic in Stoke did put us under a little pressure towards the end , we finished with a whole five minutes to spare ! |
| 8 | If this reaction seems overstated , it is simply the effect of holidays spent and expectations dulled at some of Europe 's best resorts . |
| 9 | The ambassador grinned at both of us . |
| 10 | Scott glanced at each of the policemen in turn , then motioned to the chairs close to his desk . |
| 11 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 12 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 13 | Discovered at one of the LTA 's 3 Star Clubs at King George 's Comprehensive school , by the father of local professional coach Harvey Slater ( who now coaches the youngster ) , Joanne , who is about to leave school for a year of full time playing , is one of the few British juniors who has the ability to ‘ kick ’ and break from the pack . |
| 14 | We eventually went to the Austrian Police in an effort to get some assistance and , as good fortune would have it , we met it young Austrian called Thomas who worked at one of the Shipping Offices on the border . |
| 15 | The Southern Health Board says the painstaking search is necessary to track down every patient who underwent invasive surgery by the junior houseman , who assisted at dozens of operations . |
| 16 | We then continued our journey , pushing on until we reached the city walls and lodged at one of the fine taverns on the Southwark side of the river . |
| 17 | The survey , conducted between September and December last year , looked at 687 of the UK 's 2,000 privately run pools of which 363 — just over half the sample — were in hotels , guesthouses and conference centres . |
| 18 | Ipuky looked at neither of them . |
| 19 | She looked at each of the women in turn . |
| 20 | Frank looked at each of them in turn , then sighed . |
| 21 | She looked at each of them , her eyes steady and brilliant , the wind scurrying across the forest now , nearly with them . |
| 22 | He looked at each of them , his eyes coming to rest on Rain . |
| 23 | When I visited the museum , I looked at all of the chairs and was given permission to handle and try them for comfort . |
| 24 | The President looked at one of the papers before him . |
| 25 | The cook looked at one of the maids , " Jane , will you fetch Master Patrick a cup and saucer please . " |
| 26 | She looked at one of these pictures now , and smiled at it . |
| 27 | ‘ Just because my daughter looked at one of these boys , they swore very loudly at her , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Paulie looked at one of the questions ! |
| 29 | Dr Tim Bishop , for the ICRF in Leeds , added : ‘ We looked at dozens of case studies , from as far apart as America , Holland , Iceland , Germany , France , Sweden and the UK — in fact , almost all the known families with chromosome 17 linkage data and we were amazed to see that all of the families seemed to have the same genetic defect . ’ |
| 30 | The boy said nothing , only looked at both of us with wide-open eyes , but there were no tears despite the pain . |