Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 German radar at St Marc or lookouts at about this time reported 17 ships , so the coastal batteries were closed up for action against ships .
2 Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding .
3 " Seven-thirty , it starts , " he said , " and ends at half-past eleven . "
4 Plowman J stated at p596 : The arrangement in my view must be looked at as a whole , and looked at in this way , I find it impossible to say that the Respondent did not provide the trustee with an income … in the sense in which the word " provided " is used in [ what is now TA 1988 , s663 ] ; that is to say , as importing an element of bounty .
5 The Jewish population of Berlin also increased and peaked at about 3–4 per cent at the time of World War I. In multi-ethnic Vienna the Jews , though a different and more often stigmatized nationality , were still only yet another nationality .
6 When looked at in this distributed way , any one gene can be said to ‘ meet ’ another when they find themselves sharing a body .
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