Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 2 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 3 | A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community . |
| 4 | The provincial mornings managed to stay at their 1957 level , but this was already down by one third from their immediate postwar peak . |
| 5 | The black glittering eyes seemed to tear at her like scissors . |
| 6 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 7 | When prospective buyers came to look at the house , which happened more and more frequently , they stayed out of the way until they had gone . |
| 8 | People on passing boats began to shout at Lucenzo , waving him down , but he seemed not to notice . |
| 9 | It could limit or remove altogether certain rights presumed to exist at common law . |
| 10 | John McEnroe enabled the USA to reach the semi-finals this year by answering Mr Gorman 's plea to play singles because certain other players preferred to play at Queen 's or practise elsewhere for Wimbledon . |
| 11 | Most bottom-dwelling trilobites preferred to live at a particular water depth , or on a particular type of sea bottom ( mud , sand or lime ) . |
| 12 | Subsequent events tended to recur at the time of intercurrent infections , at which time the flow rate of oxygen was increased ; none subsequently required cardiopulmonary resuscitation . |