Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collections do n't have to be expensive , or acquired all at the same time . |
| 2 | Because many of these houses were little known , or stood unseen at the end of long drives , there was no pressure to repair them . |
| 3 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 4 | Yes , that was Cat 's way of life : he would always be the sex that seemed fashionable at the time . |
| 5 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 6 | This was one of two problems that loomed large at the time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Horribly frightened by this time , for she could not believe that Susan would have gone out of the house , she ran into the kitchen , and stopped short at the sight of the familiar figure sitting crouched in front of the fire . |
| 9 | Dot remembered how the bowl of each spoon at Mrs Parvis 's was stained a streaky brown , and bent crooked at the shaft , with NAAFI stamped on the handle . |
| 10 | ‘ But I kept trying my hardest and came good at the end . ’ |
| 11 | A BOMB hidden in a flowerpot killed nine people and wounded 100 at the Air France desk at Algiers airport yesterday . |
| 12 | She called her a tart and a slut because she used to be married to a black man from South Carolina who sang basso at charity concerts all over Yorkshire and Lancashire and dropped dead at the Sun Hotel in Eccleshill in 1927 . |
| 13 | He bubbled noisily and dropped dead at the wizard 's feet . |
| 14 | She left him and joined those at the milk churns . |
| 15 | Again and again , Dorian Gray went secretly to the room and looked first at the ugly and terrible face in the picture , then at the beautiful young face that laughed back at him from the mirror . |
| 16 | Only in Split in 1990 did I start out too quickly and felt bad at the half-marathon stage . |
| 17 | ‘ I laughed out loud at three , smiled at four and felt sour at the rest . ’ |
| 18 | In Nice the people were not used to painters and felt embarrassed at the idea of posing for them . |
| 19 | They had always found buccaneering terribly alarming , and felt seasick at the slightest sign of bad weather . |
| 20 | Lying in bed that November day , Wilson looked at the baby cradled in her arms and felt dizzy at the sight of his uncanny resemblance to his brother . |
| 21 | She left her office at about five forty-five , saw Naylor 's Jaguar in the car park and went weak at the knees about him for a few seconds , then she determinedly got into her own car and drove home . |
| 22 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 23 | Running to the connecting door they opened it , and stared aghast at the scene . |
| 24 | He pushed the SE into a near-vertical dive and stared wide-eyed at the growing target . |
| 25 | We looked into the dining room , and stared unbelieving at the water dripping through the ceiling , being absorbed by our furniture and new carpet . |
| 26 | A group of children , their dirty faces streaked with tears , clung to her tattered gown and stared round-eyed at the group of men who had commandeered the room and were now talking quickly in an alien language . |
| 27 | And presented those at the beginning . |
| 28 | Hazel , however , returned and sat pensive at the lip of the hole , looking out at the silent , rippling veils of rain that drifted across and across the little valley between the two copses . |
| 29 | Northern went behind when Wilson scored the first of two tries , but led 8–4 at the interval after a fine try from Fairbank and two goals from Hobbs . |
| 30 | Jennifer was about to reply but stopped short at the look on the other woman 's face . |