Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 2 | The message merely reported that the French had attacked at dawn and that the Prussian outposts had been driven in south of Charleroi . |
| 3 | The Robbins Report on Higher Education published in 1963 had hinted at reform : |
| 4 | Those clients whom we estimated as least likely to have remained at home had it not been for the Home Support Project were , as expected , particularly heavy consumers of community services . |
| 5 | We have already discussed the question of fuel used in cremations which , at least for the larger cremation cemeteries , argues that the cremation itself may be more likely to have occurred at home than at the cemetery . |
| 6 | ‘ You should all have stayed at home , ’ he was saying , stuffing tobacco into his pipe with nervous fingers . |
| 7 | Many have scoffed at justification by faith , believing that it is a fiction only , a make-believe doctrine that has no reality in fact . |
| 8 | There are some types of case which it can not sustain , and some which do not need it in order to remain at home ; but there is a group — those with relatively severe dementia , probably living alone , and unable to receive the care they need from elsewhere ( usually because they do not have able and willing involved relatives ) who appear unlikely to have remained at home had it not been for the involvement of the Home Support Project . |
| 9 | Seventeen have died at median 7 ( 1–23 ) months . |
| 10 | Some may have visited the other side , but most have stayed at home living with political , economic and cultural systems that have very little in common except the original reason that they came into being — the biggest war the world had yet seen . |