Example sentences of "[vb past] at [num ord] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a stunned silence … punctured at last by shrill , almost hysterical laughter . |
| 2 | When they were all settled , the President of the Court , the four colonels who made up the tribunal and the Judge Advocate General appeared , followed at last by the prisoner . |
| 3 | That her mother was just an ordinary woman , charmed at first by Jake 's queer ways , but then growing bored and leaving him ? |
| 4 | … John and I , flattered at first by the sweet smell of success , had to get out of it , into another language , forgotten in the House of Fame but happy ever after in the House of Fiction . |
| 5 | ’ There was a long painful silence , interrupted at last by the teacher 's impatient voice . |