Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth explains how his own mind slowly arrived at maturity , how he dedicated himself to poetry , and how after being diverted by Cambridge , France and Godwinism , his imagination was restored , a vision of the eternal Mind granted to him on Snowdon ( Prelude 1805 , xiii , 1–119 ) and his poetic vocation assured . |
| 2 | Corbett quickly looked at Ranulf , who sat as if carved from stone , transfixed by their rapid questions like a spectator at some skilful sword fight . |
| 3 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 4 | Walker always looked at home until his move to Italy sapped his self-belief and left the normally swift-heeled defender looking as if he had feet of clay . |
| 5 | Countess Spencer often stayed at Park House while Ruth , Lady Fermoy taught the children card games . |
| 6 | It bubbled and spat through a layer of brown scum that stained the outside of the pan , but it smelt good , almost as good as the dinners Frankie sometimes had at school . |
| 7 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 8 | American banks ' loans totalled $157 billion in 1992 , of which one-fifth were not being serviced ; British banks ' lending to property companies alone stood at £37 billion in March 1993 . |
| 9 | Theodora then looked at Ian . |
| 10 | The question commonly asked at interviews , ‘ What specialty are you interested in ? ’ becomes largely irrelevant . |
| 11 | Sir Harold rarely bought at auction and never lent his treasures out for exhibition , so most of the pictures are little known , with the exception of Frans Hals 's ‘ Merry lute player ’ , which is in fact in danger of overexposure . |
| 12 | In the great Victorian cities of Birmingham , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle and Sheffield fewer than one in ten of the population went to church or chapel ; the industrial working classes mostly stayed at home . |
| 13 | That result surpassed Saturday 's victory over Downpatrick by runs , a match also played at Upritchard Park . |
| 14 | Throughout the week , Christians also gathered at lunchtime at St. Austin 's church in the city , with the service led by a different denomination each day . |
| 15 | In defence of church liberties Pecham also decreed at Reading that Magna Carta was to be posted in every cathedral and collegiate church in the land and expounded in every parish church each Sunday ; violators , particularly those who resorted to writs of prohibition , or seized or wasted church property , or neglected to arrest unreconciled offenders when required to do so , were to be excommunicated . |
| 16 | THE body of a French charity worker killed in the shooting down of a Medicins sans Frontieres ( MSF ) plane in southern Sudan nine days ago exploded at Khartoum airport in what is thought to have been a booby-trap . |
| 17 | Individuals with Luna well aspected at birth are tall and fair with a pale complexion , round face , grey eyes , short arms and thick hands and feet . |
| 18 | Even so , the band never felt at ease on film , even straight filming of concert performances . |
| 19 | However , these two commanders also remained at sea throughout the landings and so had as little idea as Hamilton of what was going forward . |
| 20 | Sukarno also mediated at Semarang where pemuda extremists attacked the Japanese garrison and were in turn attacked , losing an estimated 2000 in six days . |
| 21 | Farmers argued that as their day already began at sunrise , they would gain nothing and would also lose an hour for their workers insisted on finishing at the same time as town dwellers . |
| 22 | Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon . |
| 23 | Dave Higgins also looked at home in an unfamiliar right-back berth . |
| 24 | Average annual household disposable income now stood at £18,251 compared with £9,201 in 1982 , a growth in real terms of 16 per cent . |
| 25 | Sir Brian suddenly knelt at Athelstan 's feet and sketched the sign of the cross in the air . |
| 26 | Otherwise people just stayed at home and ignored Government encouragement to come into the office . |
| 27 | Many people wisely stayed at home , and that left one theatre in Cirencester without and audience . |
| 28 | And since the dog also resided at Almsmead — Frizingley very clearly being no place for one of his pedigree — so too , for most of the time , it seemed , did Tristan . |
| 29 | People often looked at Elizabeth with a cheated air . |
| 30 | Dagmar silently appeared at Rose 's elbow . |