Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " This way we 'll get to see more of the real Saigon , " he said loudly for the benefit of their father — then he winked confidentially at Joseph and whispered in his ear : " And the last one there is a horse 's ass . |
| 2 | The coroner swept his beaver hat from his head , scratched his balding pate , winked lecherously at Benedicta and turned to watch a now frightened taverner bring across a deep pewter bowl of sack and cups of wine for his companions . |
| 3 | HEALTH MINISTERS met secretly at Chevening last week to agree a strategy for winning the propaganda battle over the Government 's NHS changes . |
| 4 | The Bradfords entertained lavishly at Christmas . |
| 5 | The first essentials for any cloud flying in large cumulus are that the glider must be properly equipped for serious flying , and the pilot must be competent and experienced enough at instrument flying to be able to regain control from any attitude without having to use the airbrakes . |
| 6 | C. P. Snow I met only at feasts at Churchill College , where he was a Fellow . |
| 7 | Exemptions from paying tithes and from visitation were granted to the Order , for the Cistercians had their own developed machinery of the general chapter which met annually at Cîteaux to ensure the maintenance of the rule . |
| 8 | Then LWT , whose galaxy of creative talent in 1967 just ‘ had to have its chance , whatever the repercussions , ’ as the ITA chairman , Lord Hill , put it ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 364 ) , failed disastrously at company management . |
| 9 | She gazed enviously at Paula 's long legs , slim and shapely in the skin-tight pedal pushers . |
| 10 | At the beginning of February A C Canoe Products and Palm got together at Ace 's factory to show off their products to dealers and to reveal the secrets of rotational moulding to those not already in the know … |
| 11 | I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate . |
| 12 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the courtyard below , busy with ambulances and patients clutching appointment cards as they peered hesitatingly at signs pointing the way to Casualty and X-ray and Outpatients , with the birdlike figures of caped nurses changing shifts , and the white coats of housemen hustling importantly from ward block to ward block . |
| 13 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 14 | His eyes flickered nervously at Corbett . |
| 15 | Analogous to these are some fine vases , all of one shape ( hydria , water-pot ) and decorated probably by only two painters , found mostly at Caere in Etruria and probably made in the Greek quarter there . |
| 16 | The so-called ‘ Palace Style ’ amphoras were at first made and used only at Knossos itself , which strongly suggests that they were made for the use of the ruling elite . |
| 17 | Mouse pups born in Dr Friedler 's laboratory weighed less at birth and failed to grow or mature as fast as those born of fathers treated ( for the sake of comparison ) with either salt-water injections or compressed air . |
| 18 | These difficulties occurred only at home . |
| 19 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 20 | The pace was fast ; they stopped only at way stations which were situated every hundred verst or so to change st'lyan . |
| 21 | Doubt hangs over future of girl found alone at home |
| 22 | He and his Chief Wife dined alone at sunset , then he went to his office to work . |
| 23 | Rudd developed his junked BRM ‘ wing ’ car ideas and beavered away at Ketteringham Hall with his think tank — a team that included Peter Wright , an ex-BRM colleague who fathered active suspension — to produce the F1 Lotus 78 . |
| 24 | As the jeep moved away at speed I could still hear him shouting , then it was gone in a cloud of dust , road leading to the beaches to join the other wounded waiting to be shipped back to England . |
| 25 | There were few elderly people in the congregation as people moved away at retirement , so they lost only two through death . |
| 26 | Through the resurrection the fire scorched forth at pentecost and to the foundation of the Church . |
| 27 | Hundreds of riot police then charged repeatedly at scores of Left-wingers and pushed them back from the podium so that President Weizsaecker could begin his speech . |
| 28 | The bands of volunteers rallied willingly at Edith 's command , and though her residency was comparatively short , her influence was great . |
| 29 | Unlike other PTPases the vaccinia protein is able to dephosphorylate proteins modified both at serine and at tyrosine residues , but the structural basis of this altered specificity and its biological significance are unknown . |
| 30 | She peered sideways at Omi . |