Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he loosed his grip suddenly , and stood back with an oath , his hand going up to his lip where blood appeared at the site of her teeth-marks . |
| 2 | that neither angel nor devil came at the hour that he was dead . |
| 3 | And , although Folly stared at the slip of pasteboard with the kind of intensity that fortune-tellers reserved for Tarot cards , she did n't know exactly what he had in mind … |
| 4 | All through trains ceased on the GC in the early hours of 4th September 1966 , when signal boxes were locked out of use until demolition began at the turn of the year . |
| 5 | Drake 's interest in magic and illusion began at the age of nine when his parents took him to Indonesia . |
| 6 | Charlie Harris was a shrewd street-seller whose appearance and demeanour tugged at the heartstrings of the compassionate . |
| 7 | Tess and Angel arrived at the old d'Urberville farmhouse . |
| 8 | He points out that the reporting of the Brixton riot was marked by a discursive struggle between the ‘ law-and-order discourse ’ and a ‘ contra-discourse ’ , which sought to demystify ‘ the hitherto unproblematic position of the police ’ , by emphasising the possibility that police harassment and brutality lay at the root of the disorder . |
| 9 | Thunder grumbled somewhere in the sky again and rain hissed at the windows . |
| 10 | If inflation continued at the rate of 5% per annum , then by 1 January , 1992 each £100 original nominal value of the bond would be worth £110.25 and the interest due thereon in that year would be £2.205 . |
| 11 | And the next morning when she and Charity arrived at the meeting they were as much in the dark as everyone else . |
| 12 | Prices of electricity and gas rose at the beginning of 1991 , increasing retail prices by 12.7 per cent overall . |
| 13 | I help myself to a drink and stare entranced at the bald patch in the shag-pile over by the door . |
| 14 | The first step to fame and fortune came at the age of twelve , in an incident that was to prove to have a profound effect . |
| 15 | Alain just nodded and Marguerite smiled at the girl . |
| 16 | Black and white sizzled at the windows . |
| 17 | She had known that , beyond a doubt , Havvie must have formed liaisons , had mistresses — few young men of his rank and class arrived at the age of thirty innocent . |
| 18 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 19 | By the time the snow began to thaw he could walk gingerly on his injured ankle and when aid arrived at the farm in the form of Tom 's snow-plough , with Tom guiding the plough and Carrie riding the horse , Seb was standing in the farmyard to greet them . |
| 20 | When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she did n't hold out much hope of prising his purse open . |
| 21 | When Luv opened at the Booth Theater in 1964 ( with Wallach , Jackson and Arkin ) , Walter Kerr over-enthusiastically claimed it was better than Waiting for Godot . |
| 22 | Buchanan stood up , putting on his coat as Warden stood at the same time . |
| 23 | I had nearly got to the front door when Father appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 24 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 25 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 26 | You 're forgetting I 've known you since childhood , Doreen — ’ He broke off as Ling appeared at the door . |
| 27 | Now when Abbey looked at the policy , because he 'd got the Covermaster policy , the cheque and everything , there was nothing there to indicate that there was a problem . |
| 28 | I was just congratulating myself on negotiating the first and second holes fairly well when disaster struck at the 142-yard par-three third . |