Example sentences of "[det] [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting .
2 If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date .
3 A practical circus consists of a series of tasks each placed at a different position in the room .
4 The old Eagle Warehouse had the appearance of a curve at the west end of Bothwell Street , though in fact it was made up of four straight sections each placed at a shallow angle .
5 The gaunt picture on the back tells a story that few understood at the time : Marley was being eaten by cancer .
6 A change of context between the exposure phase and the conditioning phase should , therefore , eliminate latent inhibition at the 24-h interval and reduce that seen at the 4-h interval .
7 How much spent at the main counter ?
8 Much left at the end of the month ? ’
9 Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper .
10 During work on the building of the electricity pylons on Halling Marshes workmen digging out the footings for one of these discovered at a depth of 10 ft in the mud a dug-out canoe .
11 then you put them on when your feet are all swollen at the end of the day you 'll find them too tight .
12 Many stopped at the ICI stand , which covered topics such as environmental policy , discharge improvements , reed-bed water treatment and the ozone layer .
13 Well it automatically comes on you see it it 's all frozen at the moment it will probably shoot out itself I did try it once to try and pull it out but , I think
14 so he went back and he says er , oh he says er he says oh dear like , he says well carry on he says I 'll have to take the door off , so he says can you give a hand to hold it , cos he had to cut er this er like and all grown at the bottom of the door you know with
15 All done at eighty five pounds ninety good for ninety five one hundred seated and ten one ten on the right standing a hundred and ten against you all at and twenty one thirty one thirty , on the right standing , at one thirty are you all done at a hundred and thirty pounds .
16 All done at a hundred and twenty pounds .
17 All done at a hundred and sixty pounds one seventy one seventy now on the one eighty one ninety one ninety two hundred two hundred pounds .
18 All done at a hundred and thirty only , one forty , one fifty sixty , one seventy eighty ninety standing at one ninety , any more ?
19 Eighty five pounds then , at the back and I 'll sell at eighty five , ninety on the aisle , ninety five one hundred one ten one twenty one twenty on the aisle , at one twenty , are you all done at a hundred and twenty pounds ?
20 All done at a hundred and sixty , any more at two two eighty seated then at two hundred and eighty pounds any more , are you all done ?
21 At a hundred pounds , all done at a hundred ?
22 One thirty one forty one forty on the aisle , one forty then and I shall sell at one fifty also on aisle , one sixty one sixty now near me on the aisle at one sixty , are you all done at a hundred and sixty pounds ? six seven .
23 Oh you 're daddy 's is all stained at the back and at the arm .
24 Well this is , yeah , although that 's what was all agreed at the last minute .
25 Apparently they do a commemorative gig every year at the same pub where we were all based at the time . ’
26 They are all deposited at the Shirehall , Abbey Foregate , Shrewsbury , and are available for inspection .
27 The variations on the basic motions number in their thousands and they are all executed at a very high speed .
28 Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples .
29 all rounded at the edge .
30 As many observed at the time , the question could have similarly been asked nearly fifty years earlier with regard to the relative lack of support for the 1926 General Strike in the same county : as Sunley ( 1990 ) describes the two geographies , they have ‘ striking parallels ’ .
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