Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we are left with in this critic 's eyes is the drama of one simple and honourable man created by what seemed at first a ‘ carefully studied impersonation ’ but what became a very moving performance by Muni . |
| 2 | A hushed audience listened to quality singing star Joan Regan , who seemed at first a little nervous but relaxed with what must be one of her own favourites , May You Always . |
| 3 | When English was established in British universities criticism played at best a minor part in it . |
| 4 | In part this was due to his commitment to the nationalist cause , though he played at best a minor role in the creation of Connolly 's Irish Citizen Army . |
| 5 | While many people frowned at such a huge expansion programme , it soon became apparent that it was insufficient to guarantee the avoidance of another crisis , and official approval was immediately secured for the planting of a further 5,000 hectares by the year 1990 . |
| 6 | The abbot of Cîteaux enjoyed at first a patriarchal , supervisory role like his brother of Cluny ; but in the course of the 1120s and 1130s the machinery of the Order was perfected , and in principle every abbot of the Order went to Cîteaux every year for general chapter , and every abbot visited his abbey 's daughter houses every year . |
| 7 | I got swore at many a time , I did . |
| 8 | We started at such a speed . |
| 9 | He went at such a headlong pace that he nearly knocked down his own jackal-tigers always have a jackal of their own to clear away the bones after they have finished eating . |
| 10 | Because of the unusually large number of old folk living at Low Birk Hatt we had more than our share of funerals and everything was made worse when Daddy died at such a young age . |
| 11 | As far as I know , no one else in the Dale caught it — except my Uncle Tommy , my father 's brother who had come to run the farm for us when my father died at such a tragically early age . |
| 12 | The impulse proved at first a happy one , for in the graveyard Miss Fergusson discovered tombstones and crosses whose Celtic air recalled those of her native Ireland ; a smile of approval crossed her dutiful features . |
| 13 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 14 | For the next two years after that , it increased at 2s a year , and during the seventh and last year of apprenticeship it moved more quickly , so that at the end of the seventh year , the by now 21-year-old man could be earning more than double his wage of a year before . |
| 15 | The battles he won at such a cost to his health that he could n't help but lose the war in the end . |
| 16 | In general , de Gaulle 's rapport with Allied publics was remarkably good , especially in view of the fact that he had no prior experience of either country , spoke at best a halting English , and had to overcome systematic attempts by the governments to influence press coverage against him . |
| 17 | Instead , consonant with the prevailing economic orthodoxy , the public interest became at most a background justification for the free availability of incorporation and limited liability . |
| 18 | I shied at such a thinly veiled challenge , but succumbed to her persuasion , which had become more vociferous as the water diminished . |
| 19 | She laboured at this a long time , taking great care in the shaping and moulding of the tiny , human forms , but then she grew tired . |