Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] at the " in BNC.

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1 While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia .
2 Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording .
3 Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche .
4 Learned professional societies , on the whole , only gave instruction at the request of the users .
5 Worst of all , some sadist of a landscape designer had slapped down Dancer 's stick-and-ball field right next to her house , so she not only had fairies at the bottom of her garden , but also a microcosm of Rutshire Polo Club .
6 Consolation came when Ernie Coleman finally joined Arsenal at the end of the season , for a fee of £6,000 .
7 A factory is sustained by the energy of its own functioning , the throb and whine of machinery , the clash of metal , the unceasing motion of the assembly lines , the ebb and flow of workers changing shifts , the hiss of airbrakes and the growl of diesel engines from wagons delivering raw materials at one gate , taking away finished goods at the other .
8 The caucus thus gave continuity at the top throughout the development of the closure plan .
9 THE revels that once took place at the New Year turned everything base over apex .
10 But when I pushed open the gate into the yard on my return , I always saw Jean-Claude at the window .
11 What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession .
12 ‘ Melanie always had hysterics at the mere mention of motherhood .
13 It also reduced friction at the point of contact .
14 Greg Martin also paid £1,380 at the Christie 's sale for a 1890 halfpenny coin shot through the centre by the legendary sharpshooter with her Winchester .
15 He also attended classes at the Actors Studio , before replacing Ben Gazzara in the leading role of the junkie in A Hatful of Rain on Broadway in 1956 .
16 Wilkinson also had problems at the 17th with a six , but then birded the 18th for a level par 72 to finish three shots clear of the rest of the field .
17 By 1378 he had been described as master of all Wykeham 's masonry works at Bishop 's Waltham Palace , Hampshire , and also had charge at the episcopal manors of Highclere and Farnham , Surrey ( J. N. Hare in Archaeological Journal , vol. cxlv , 1988 , p. 239 ) .
18 The judge also said staff at the Berkshire sub-post office may never recover from the terror of that day .
19 We also closed beds at the satellite rheumatology hospital — a subregional centre .
20 Jones often visited Lovelace at the castle and later at New Lodge in Windsor Forest , where Lovelace moved after her marriage to Lord Henry Beauclerk in June 1739 .
21 He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution , then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh , where he graduated MD and LRCS in 1847 .
22 He then studied chemistry at the City and Guilds of London Institute under F. S. Kipping [ q.v. ] , who became his friend .
23 The Senate then took offence at the picture of the grain merchants .
24 A meeting then took place at the border on Nov. 8 between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , first on the German side at Frankfurt an der Oder and then across the river at Slubice ( part of pre-1945 Frankfurt ) .
25 Johnston , who scored a superb goal in Tbilisi in the first leg , had an outstanding game , and he almost forced extra-time at the death .
26 People officially became adults at the age of twelve in Bible times , and at that age , or shortly after , their parents arranged who they would marry !
27 Not surprisingly influential Americans again showed impatience at the apparent inability of Britain to recover from the war .
28 The rest of the traders , however , again expressed shock/horror at the very idea and were usefully sententious with it .
29 Ben parked his newly acquired BMW at the roadside and hoped it would be there when he returned , reassuring himself that in this place of utter solitude car thieves were n't likely to creep out of the hedgerows with duplicate keys .
30 Purple and yellow crocuses were popping up all over the lawn , the hard winter outlines of shrubs and trees were blurred by new growth like the fuzz on an adolescent 's upper lip , even the rows of savagely pruned rosebushes at the front of the house , separated by concrete walkways like a cemetery of spider crabs buried upside-down , were shoving out shoots and buds .
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