Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | July 19 : Cessna 180J N9962N unable to climb out of canyon and crashed at New Castle , Wyoming . |
| 4 | My understanding is that the European parliament has got so many buildings now including a great new building at Brussels built at huge cost , enormous cost and a new building they want to build at Strasbourg . |
| 5 | They rehearsed at New Cross Stadium and had to get a suntan to look fit . |
| 6 | Henderson returned to have both Rennie and Peall caught at long leg , leaving Durham with 19 overs ' batting to the close . |
| 7 | Byas held on to his third catch in the slips to gain Carrick the wicket of Harvey Trump , and after Robinson had returned to account for Andrew Cottam , Carrick rounded off the innings by getting the stubborn Andrew Caddick caught at extra cover for 37 . |
| 8 | Simon Brown , also producing his best bowling of the tour , returned to have Mark Dekker caught at short leg by Gary Brown and Zimbabwe B were 57 for five . |
| 9 | In contrast , macerated stillbirths were underrepresented in the stillbirths that occurred at general practitioner units while deaths due to asphyxia in labour were overrepresented . |
| 10 | Incidents occurred at nuclear power stations in Spain and Lithuania during February . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 13 | We camped at Blind Tarn close to the Coniston fells in the Lakes . |
| 14 | Unlike the stag , the tape-recorder did not get tired and when the tape-recorder roared at high rate , the stag roared less . |
| 15 | Trained by Richard Hannon , Lemon Souffle has n't run since she scored at scintillating victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket in July . |
| 16 | Ordering a staff car , he drove at top speed through the night to Paris . |
| 17 | The announcement of the measures comes more than three months after publication of the Holman report , ordered following last August 's event , when several racing boats drove at high speed in fog-shrouded Torbay — two hitting a holiday beach . |
| 18 | Bull and his colleague , Detective Constable Tim Wills , drove at high speed towards north Wales . |
| 19 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 20 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 21 | Stephen Morrow played at left back against Albania and was singled out for praise by Bingham . |
| 22 | And the occasion will be given more spice by the fact that Dorahy played at full back and stand off during a spell at the Boulevard . |
| 23 | Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 25 | They came at full speed , the leading man aiming to Sharpe 's left , the other pulling to his right . |
| 26 | An overwhelming majority of those who still baulked at actual sacking favoured return to uniform , with the view that ‘ CID officers who are lazy and incompetent were so primarily because of the absence of the eventual sanction of removal from specialist duty . ’ |
| 27 | The Attlee government baulked at local government reform by boundary revision , the Local Government Boundary Commission which it had set up , proving to be of short-lived duration . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ A win is essential because we 've got to prove what happened at Ayresome Park was a freak . |
| 29 | In patients with heart failure , catecholamine concentrations are increased at rest and at low levels of exercise , and attenuated at maximum exercise . |
| 30 | The row flared at Prime Minister 's Question Time , with Mr Smith alleging that over £1.5m had been donated to the party by Nadir , whose counsel yesterday told Old Bailey judges he was ‘ most unlikely ’ to return to Britain to stand trial this September . |