Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bradfords entertained lavishly at Christmas . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These difficulties occurred only at home . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The pace was fast ; they stopped only at way stations which were situated every hundred verst or so to change st'lyan . |
| 10 | Doubt hangs over future of girl found alone at home |
| 11 | He and his Chief Wife dined alone at sunset , then he went to his office to work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There were few elderly people in the congregation as people moved away at retirement , so they lost only two through death . |
| 14 | Through the resurrection the fire scorched forth at pentecost and to the foundation of the Church . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Dad had a regular and earnest young crowd of head-bowers — students , psychologists , nurses , musicians — who adored him , some of whom rang and visited late at night in panic and fear , so dependent were they on his listening kindness . |
| 17 | He had spent most of the Forties in the Washington embassy , sat on the Anglo-American committee on atomic information and had a permanent and unrestricted pass to the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission , which he frequently used late at night . |
| 18 | I tried hard at school because I was most happy there — not at home where girls are not allowed to go out even with their female friends . |
| 19 | Oliver Canning and Shane Walsh tried hard at midfield for Galway but Kilkenny 's superior stickwork here told its own story . |
| 20 | The issue surfaced again at Cabinet on 30 September when I warned colleagues that the leaking of the CPRS report had caused us damage . |
| 21 | He ate little at lunch and she thought : Well , he would n't , would he ? |
| 22 | ‘ America ’ seemed constantly at risk . |
| 23 | Lynne Dawson , carrying the weight of solo work , never seemed entirely at ease , adding a frantic , nervy quality to even the stillest passages . |
| 24 | They had been trained in their own callings — pilots , navigators , gunners and wireless operator 's — and came together at No 19 OTU Kinloss where they were to be trained on Whitleys . |
| 25 | His companion seemed less at ease . |
| 26 | His gaze appeared to be fixed straight ahead , and he seemed utterly at peace with himself and his surroundings . |
| 27 | Prost seemed utterly at ease with the pressure being put on him . |
| 28 | Clothes , newspapers and nameless rubbish littered the floor and over everything a radio blasted away at fall strength . |
| 29 | On some you 'll find screens and pews and font-covers of such exuberance they 'd more at home in a Moorish palace . |
| 30 | The child no longer came home at lunch-time . |