Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Sorenstam finished at 11 under par , Helen Alfredsson , her sister Swede , came in at seven under . |
| 2 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 3 | And then it seemed that Duvall understood at last that he had been shot . |
| 4 | It is ironical that Watson had at first supported the Revolution and then changed his mind . |
| 5 | And the occasion will be given more spice by the fact that Dorahy played at full back and stand off during a spell at the Boulevard . |
| 6 | Dalziel and Pascoe looked at each other for a long moment after the door had slammed behind Evans . |
| 7 | Lexandro , Yeremi , and Biff stared at one another silently . |
| 8 | In the kitchen Michael and Sarah stared at one another , shocked . |
| 9 | After a time Boldwood started to hope that one day , if Bathsheba remarried at all , she would marry him . |
| 10 | Instead , he was out first thing next morning for 110 and Gower declared at 300 for 9 , leaving West Indies to make 342 in four and a half hours and twenty overs . |
| 11 | And Cardiff knew at last that even if he could ask the question , it could never provide him with an answer . |
| 12 | Algernon and Heinrich glanced at each other . |
| 13 | And she and Marie smiled at each other , like conspirators . |
| 14 | He and Branson looked at each other with the candour of two people who know they are utterly different , but for one shared resolution . |
| 15 | Juliet and David looked at each other . |
| 16 | Suvarov had much to say about the territorial ambitions of Marshal Stalin and David interrupted at one moment to ask whether Suvarov had ever met him . |
| 17 | He and Valerie looked at each other as cordially as two people who loathe each other can . |
| 18 | Jenny and Antony looked at each other , brown eyes unblinkingly fixed on blue , over the rims of their upraised pint pots . |
| 19 | Jenny and Antony looked at each other dubiously . |
| 20 | But between 1850 and 1890 even Austro-Hungary , Norway and Ireland urbanised at this rate , Belgium and the United States at between 0.30 and 0.40 , Prussia , Australia and Argentina at between 0.40 and 0.50 , England and Wales ( still leading by a short head ) and Saxony at over 0.50 per annum . |
| 21 | Fand and Liban stood at either side of the door , more stiff and still than ever . |
| 22 | His voice was low and softly timbred and Ruth wondered at such cruelty . |
| 23 | Colin and Kim married at 18 and had two little boys . |
| 24 | In 1985 Caffier took advantage of a quiet hour over lunch at the Musée de l'école de Nancy and stole five pieces of pate de verre by Daum and Galle valued at more than FFr30 million . |
| 25 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 26 | " When he went upstairs to change for dinner , Lady Agatha and Fidelma looked at each other . " |
| 27 | Mary and Reggie looked at each other , at her , and went hastily into their bedroom . |
| 28 | Karr and Chen looked at each other , some sign of understanding passing between them , then Karr looked back at Haavikko . |
| 29 | From the later 1830s the rulers of Prussia and Russia maintained at each other 's courts military plenipotentiaries , high-ranking officers whose role in relations between the two monarchs was often more important than that of any diplomat . |
| 30 | ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time . |