Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I personally spoke at countless gatherings , from twenty suited businessmen at their weekly lunch to 200 noisy schoolchildren packed in a hall . |
| 2 | BRENDA LEE was only 15 when Sweet Nothings charted number four in 1960 , but the little girl from Lithonia , Georgia , sensibly stayed at high school for another three years before taking up show business full-time . |
| 3 | A Church already existed at Old Chiswick , for the folk who lived along that part of the River Thames , or used the ferry crossing which was just west of the eyot there . |
| 4 | We finally debated at great length whether it would be possible to avoid making explicit reference to the Director . |
| 5 | Political debate soon raged at different levels throughout Korean society ; an intoxicating sense of freedom prevailed . |
| 6 | Mr Logan , 54 , said : ‘ He normally stayed at top hotels . |
| 7 | He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference . |
| 8 | Monique Javer , now 23 , was born near San Francisco of an English mother , who once played at junior Wimbledon , and an American father , who is a distinguished brain surgeon . |
| 9 | An overwhelming majority of those who still baulked at actual sacking favoured return to uniform , with the view that ‘ CID officers who are lazy and incompetent were so primarily because of the absence of the eventual sanction of removal from specialist duty . ’ |
| 10 | A happy working relationship is vital , and Jane and I quickly arrived at joint decisions about the project , choosing the clothes I would wear — light jacket , dark blue shirt and jeans — and deciding against the use of corny props ‘ appropriate ’ to my profession , such as books , a typewriter , or a bottle . |
| 11 | But people still shopped at different shops ? |
| 12 | But , I hear the man never captained England , and hardly ever appeared at international level . |
| 13 | He completed his studies at St Catharine 's College , Cambridge , which he also represented at various games . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Charles de Gaulle 's Free French also looked at European co-operation . |
| 15 | The team also looked at other companies ' inductions , including those of our clients . |
| 16 | They also stayed at different hotels to the professionals . |
| 17 | She was even making her own clothes which she often paraded at public appearances in Britain and Australia . |
| 18 | Then on 7 May we had the visit of Mamie Magnusson , who kindly agreed at short notice to launch our Christian Aid Sale by coming to present us with an autographed copy of her enthralling history of the Woman 's Guild 's first century . |
| 19 | This suspension was disrupted ultrasonically by six , 5 second bursts using an ultrasonicator ( MSE ) , then centrifuged at high speed for five minutes , thus allowing the intracellular drug content to be measured . |