Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCuaigs made whisky at Upper Cragabus ; one at Torrabus used to belong to Coal Ila ; and someone distilled at Ardinisle . |
| 2 | Letter segmentation and recognition were effectively combined into a single operation by Tappert ( Tappert , 1982 ) who matched segments against stored letter prototypes and evaluated recognition at all possible segmentations . |
| 3 | and er police rang them up Tuesday , cos er they found car at Great Alton , they went to pick it up , somebody had nicked it again |
| 4 | As the Shah arrived at the White House to be officially welcomed by President Carter , the two groups shouted abuse at each other just beyond police railings . |
| 5 | It also focussed attention at each level on the measures of performance required for effective monitoring and control , and the information dependencies of all subsystems . |
| 6 | Other studies have shown worse school progress in children who stopped diet at 6 years of age compared with children who continued treatment . |
| 7 | The castellated Raven Hotel ( a healthy clamber up the cliff path ) provided refreshment at reasonable prices . |
| 8 | I know from my own mother , who found love at 73 and would make us all smile as , like any lovesick teenager , she held hands , blushed , giggled and danced with her new partner . |
| 9 | But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top . |
| 10 | Hopes that political stability will encourage a bout of takeover activity , directed attention at all the old bid chestnuts . |
| 11 | Among the structures which received attention at that meeting but which failed to be included in the final Charter was the creation of a pan-European Assembly . |
| 12 | On polling day , the Information Ministry estimated turnout at 85 per cent . |
| 13 | He was more than usually serious and thoughtful tonight , he went with his eyes on the ground and his brows drawn , and smiled only fleetingly when she poked fun at Ednyfed 's wife to amuse him and get his attention . |
| 14 | I remember a recent visit to India where I hardly ate meat at all and never saw a chip . |
| 15 | Their mothers , lifting the heavy vessels onto their heads to carry them home , clicked at the young ones ' improvidence , as they splashed and squirted spray at one another by thumbing the tap 's mouth — mistakenly , or so they cried out when scolded . |
| 16 | They ate supper at eight . |
| 17 | Four other men played poker at another table , swarthy , fierce-looking gypsies . |
| 18 | ‘ The hospital called me about half an hour ago , ’ Cowley said , and after a brief pause , ‘ Doyle regained consciousness at four this afternoon . |
| 19 | They turned south at last and began heading towards Ratagan 's home as their shadows lengthened and the second day of the patrol drew to a close . |
| 20 | The pioneering general pension scheme was , however , for the Civil Service : first established in 1810 , by , 1859 a full pension scheme allowed retirement at sixty . |
| 21 | In the semi final he was master of the pressure game , beating Liverpool 's Craig Dobbin 3–0 who was a little out of hid depth at this level . |
| 22 | Mr Shaw was believed to have been waiting to collect fishbait near the shores of Belfast Lough at Quay Road , Newtownabbey as he did daily when a car pulled alongside and a gunman opened fire at point-blank range . |
| 23 | It was the worst raid so far but Maureen who had not yet returned to driving was with her mother in the shelter and Anne , who finished work at ten o'clock , had reached home , dodging from shelter to shelter . |
| 24 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 25 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 26 | He also expressed concern at private evidence submitted to the committee by American airlines that the US Federal Aviation Administration was waiving its requirement that all hold baggage should be examined because British airport owners would not provide the extra space . |
| 27 | The manual ( RRP £80 ) began life at Inter-Continental Hotels when the group 's then chief executive , John Van Praag , well aware , among other things , of the impact of the international traveller 's habit of leaving lights on and of the chemicals used in a 500-bedroom hotel 's laundry , noticed a huge variation in environmental behaviour . |
| 28 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 29 | For her part , the Minister , Shirley Williams , expressed satisfaction at this move towards open consultation on the part of the DES . |
| 30 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |