Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 2 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 3 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 4 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 5 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 6 | And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time . |
| 7 | Fangorn looks long at the two hobbits when they tell him Gandalf is dead ; he does so because he does n't believe them , having seen Gandalf himself a couple of days before . |
| 8 | He also described minute-taking at the final meeting as unfair . |
| 9 | Our annual elections are once again due and we ask for nominations to fill the three places on the Executive Committee that will fall vacant at the Annual General Meeting in April . |
| 10 | There seemed a strange lack of conviction about the Ipswich display and three minutes before the interval there was another scare when Hendrie crossed from the right but Wilkinson headed wide at the far post . |
| 11 | He headed wide at the far post and then forced Reece to push his angled shot round a post . |
| 12 | Dropped dead at the Royal Norfolk show last month . |
| 13 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 14 | Nicola who was one of 6 children , was last seen alive at the Crumpled Horn pub at Eldene in Swindon . |
| 15 | Willie has completed 25 years service , also starting as a bank boy , then via spool setting to become a weaver before he was made redundant at the same time . |
| 16 | This is a likely problem after holidays or long weekends ; you do not feel tired at the new bedtime but do feel tired when it is time to get up . |
| 17 | The heroes of the hour were left-hander David Byas and Craig White , who both came good at the same time to record their career-best Sunday scores . |
| 18 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 19 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 20 | The accompanying promo video for ‘ Bruise Violet ’ was shot live at the legendary CBGB 's club in New York City . |
| 21 | Perhaps he could arrange for Anthony to go sick at the last minute . |
| 22 | And despite Kenny Dalglish 's spending spree , Moran , 36 , is still going strong at the sharp end of the Premier League . |
| 23 | Some club members say that problems have arisen because power at Rugby has been restricted to a small executive committee , and major constitutional changes at the club now seem likely at the annual meeting in June . |
| 24 | The second must have got stuck at the first trees — or the driver had n't bothered to navigate the obstacle . |
| 25 | Dexter recalled that halfway through the homelessness report Nicola had delivered a short lecture about the appalling conditions in which one family lived while managing to look stunning at the same time . |
| 26 | While not representing a complete list of provisions these sections map out the range of professional social work services which should become available at the local level to deal comprehensively with difficulties that might arise in the life of a young person . |
| 27 | Harare Dread is due to play live at the Grand Hotel ballroom on April 17 . |
| 28 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 29 | The visitors bounced back with Mitchell heading wide at the far post and Cormac O'Donnell bursting into the box where Mark Donnelly 's tackle ended the danger in circumstances that might have brought a spot kick . |
| 30 | It used to amaze me that we treat criminals in a way which is guaranteed to perpetuate their self-image as a ‘ criminal ’ and reinforce negative beliefs about self and society , and then seem surprised at the high rate of recidivism . |