Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly his mother had fallen asleep at the wheel . |
| 2 | AN RAF man told a court yesterday how he had fallen asleep at the wheel of a Land-Rover before his friend died in a head-on crash with a lorry on the A1 . |
| 3 | I started my long walk , interspersed with running sessions to deliver the papers to Mr. Brooks , the Head Gardener at Godolphin School , who lived right at the bottom of Laverstock Road , a distance of almost a mile . |
| 4 | A year later he moved to Bury , and then in 1896 to Ganton , where he stayed until 1902 , when he became professional at the South Herts Club in Totteridge , north London . |
| 5 | All the dinosaurs , vegetarian and carnivore alike , became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period ( see p. 135 ) . |
| 6 | Indeed , so long was their duration on Earth that those species which became extinct at the end were quite unlike those evolving from the reptiles in the early Triassic . |
| 7 | Not until after the dinosaurs finally became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous did the mammals radiate explosively into a great diversity of forms such as we see today , to occupy an even wider range of ecological niches than those vacated by the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | Thomas Davidson became deaf at the age of four due to illness and was educated as a private pupil of Dr. Thomas Watson of the Old Kent Road Asylum . |
| 9 | Born in Taunton , Somerset to a wealthy coal merchant , he became deaf at the age of 5 due to illness . |
| 10 | Third in this trilogy of deaf men of remarkable achievements of this era who were mainly oralist but who respected those that used sign language was Abraham Farrar , born at Leeds , who became deaf at the age of 3 due to scarlet fever . |
| 11 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 12 | Howard sits tensely at his drawing-board , his mouth tight shut , his eyes gazing unseeing at the paper , rigid with anxiety to produce a good big handle . |
| 13 | Mr Todd made clear at the weekend that he thought Mr Field was a bad loser , saying he appeared to think he was God 's gift to Birkenhead . |
| 14 | When IC1 pin 2 goes high at the end of the timing period , current flows into transistor TR1 base ( b ) through current limiting resistor , R5 . |
| 15 | The Committee met weekly at the Thatch 'd House Tavern in St James 's Street and for that reason became known as The Thatched House Society . |
| 16 | We are not forcing them out of the NHS ; they will remain in the NHS , and the services will remain free at the point of delivery . |
| 17 | Whereas , even if nothing goes wrong at the weekend , Mr Smith will have made himself miserable for days in advance . |
| 18 | It 's something that goes wrong at the nerve muscle junctions ? |
| 19 | You just can not pay attention continuously to all the different variables in a situation and remain sane at the end of the day , you have to develop routines and techniques for handling it . |
| 20 | When he got through and began to speak he cheered up as he laughed and talked away , before becoming depressed at the end of the call . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've already had one long journey today and I 'd rather you did n't fall asleep at the wheel . ’ |
| 22 | Almost a quarter of road accidents happen in the middle of the afternoon and experts are warning that just one drink at lunchtime can make you fall asleep at the wheel . |
| 23 | Where 's the power to choose for those elderly people that want free at the point of service National Health Service treatment ? |
| 24 | Where 's the power to choose for those elderly people that want free at the point of service National Health Service treatment ? |
| 25 | In a lexicon of only 4,000 words , the most frequently occurring tri-gram at the start of a word only occurs 52 times ( it is the tri-gram pro ) . |
| 26 | The huge , ugly steel arch built in Soviet times to commemorate the union of Russia and Ukraine stands untouched at the end of Kreshchatik , though the union is no more . |
| 27 | ’ He still looks horrified at the idea of it . |
| 28 | He was mounted on a chestnut thoroughbred who was already becoming over-excited at the thought of the day ahead . |
| 29 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |
| 30 | In 18 patients the operation had been a two stage procedure with a covering ileostomy being closed some three months after primary surgery while in five patients a one stage restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir was performed with the ileal reservoir becoming functional at the time of proctocolectomy . |