Example sentences of "[vb past] at [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others believed that practices described and demonstrated at length by persons of high status in the Authority must at the very least be strongly recommended and might even be — or become — mandatory . |
| 2 | This violent event , described at length in hysterically colourful terms , is the only piece of history to be woven convincingly into the plot . |
| 3 | One such example is ( 6 ) , analysed at length by Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 ) . |
| 4 | When his report was submitted , it dwelt at length on the key figure of Monzer al-Kassar and his involvement with Palestinian terrorist groups , supporting Aviv 's assertion of al-Kassar 's connection with the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 5 | Berwick crashed at home to Newcastle last Saturday , but staged a quick recovery with a last-heat win at Glasow . |
| 6 | The Sergeant glowered at Rincewind , and then peered at Twoflower with interest . |
| 7 | The route had been marked by the reconnaissance platoon ; even so , as they moved at speed past each key point vehicle commanders glanced at their maps to check their progress . |
| 8 | It was still empty and she wandered at will around the main hall , seeing only those involved in administration moving about . |
| 9 | At Camberwell Bobby Hunt formed the Bob Hunt 's Ragtime Band ( Bobby on trumpet , Oska on trombone , Monty Sunshine on clarinet , Terry Arthurs on piano and Denis ( ‘ Pip ’ ) Piper on a one-string bass made out of a wooden box and a broomhandle ) and which rehearsed at lunchtime in the pottery room , Minton helping some of its members to buy their instruments . |
| 10 | She stopped at noon for some bread and cheese , and a glass of wine diluted with water , then plunged doggedly back into housework . |
| 11 | Felipe de Santis sat at the wheel , his eyes dark and irritated as he approached at speed over the rough ground . |
| 12 | Well I tried at quarter to nine the day that there there is talking about it and er I was n't allowed on the phone . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales also cancelled plans to attend Royal Ascot to take the opportunity to recover from the back injury he aggravated at polo on Sunday . |
| 14 | Very little ‘ tearout ’ occurred at end of cut |
| 15 | Photography/Jerry Harpur Illustrations/Dick Barnard Co-ordinator/Yvonne McCarthy Photographed at House of Pitmuies , Guthrie , Scotland |
| 16 | Day 12 ) Camped at bowstem of Bert Loper 's boat . |
| 17 | People in swimsuits or shorts and tops strolled at liberty on the wide sands . |
| 18 | Kimberly Clark negotiated at length with the council and the Department of Trade and Industry before opting to set up in Humberside . |
| 19 | The other thing that was interesting I learnt at dinner on Thursday night is , under the government 's legislation within so many years , nineteen ninety four I think , they 've got to ha have reduced their market share from the original hundred percent to sixty percent as new firms come in to sell gas |
| 20 | That this was a matter of interest and concern in Northumbria in the early 730s is clear from Bede 's letter to Ecgberht in 734 in which Bede expounded at length on the necessity for more bishops and a proper organization of the Northumbrian Church under an archbishop at York . |
| 21 | Charlie was a bustling , enthusiastic bundle of driving energy who played at inside-right for the Palace throughout the five seasons up to the end of fully competitive football in 1915 . |
| 22 | ‘ From Armidel , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ we came at night to Coriatachan , a house very pleasantly situated between two brooks , with one of the highest hills of the island behind it . ’ |
| 23 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 24 | But when he woke at quarter past six , his mind was full of ugly images , of Alex trembling , of the gun , and , most of all , of the expression of bewilderment and betrayal on Michael Banks 's face as he clutched at his chest and sank to the ground . |
| 25 | Even the races which lacked talons — whom Alexei considered human in origin — baulked at contact with mutated species , and as a result mutants tended to live in deserted or out-of-the-way parts of the country , effectively quarantined from the rest of civilisation . |
| 26 | On 26 May 1918 , they sailed for France on the Leasowe Castle , torpedoed at midnight on the 26/27 , the survivors taken back to Alexandria . |
| 27 | He nodded at Bacci for a translation . |
| 28 | Boris came in and started walking exercise after a scan , by Sue Dyson at Newmarket , revealed that his strained suspensory ligament ( which happened at Badminton in the spring ) had sufficiently healed . |
| 29 | ‘ Things like that never happened at court in Queen Elizabeth 's days . ’ |
| 30 | It happened at night in the stable , and in the morning the Untouchable women came and dragged it outside and butchered it just in front of the house . |