Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans naturally excelled at a style developed by themselves ; most commonly this was a simplification of Gothic features . |
| 2 | These different roles played by the designs normally existed at a subconscious level , and different societies have attached more weight to one or the other . |
| 3 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 4 | Although the main body of the hurricane had moved north , vicious squalls still tore at the mountainside , flaying the incessant downpour into giant whips of solid water that lashed across the meadow . |
| 5 | Behind his thick spectacles , his eyes positively blazed at the sight of a completed chart just waiting to have lines drawn on it , and he was always very quick off the mark with his instant weather forecasts whenever any aircrews were planning a jaunt somewhere . |
| 6 | She pondered his words then glanced at the pay phone in the corner of the bar . |
| 7 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 8 | Unlike most catalogues today , the vegetables usually came at the front with similarly enticing but just as unbelievable pictures as we find in today 's catalogues . |
| 9 | In our model experiments , 29% of approaching females and 20% of approaching males performed a sexual display , other individuals merely looked at the model before departing . |
| 10 | But British officials yesterday put at the top of the agenda the personal relationship between the two men , how the two will get on face to face . |
| 11 | Pre-tax margins also trailed at a median 6.4% rate against the FTSE 's 11.1% . |
| 12 | The reported comments among Leipzig workers also hinted at a possible prolongation of the war through the entry of America into the conflict , and it was seen as vital that the Führer bring about ‘ a lightning quick destruction of England — with gas if necessary ’ . |
| 13 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 14 | The painters also met at the Tuesday evenings held by the review Vers et Prose at the Closerie des Lilas . |
| 15 | I negotiated my way to Piccadilly — those illuminations are a splendid sight — and after a few more adventures finally arrived at the Savoy . |
| 16 | Unhappily , it had only lasted a few short weeks , but all their friends still shuddered at the memory of their truly spectacular fights ! |
| 17 | The corners were neither mitred nor dove-tailed ; rather they were butt-jointed , with sides internally kerfed at the shoulders — usually seven saw-cuts — and then bent to shape . |
| 18 | Someday someone interested in the way streets really looked at the opening of the Victorian era will read all these signs . |
| 19 | Others simply recoiled at the thought of handing out yet more American largesse . |
| 20 | Thus while labour productivity in terms of gross domestic product per head grew at 1.5 per cent per annum between 1945 and 1951 ( and by 2.5 per cent per annum between 1948 and 1951 ) it will be shown that these gains hardly nibbled at the chronic problems of overmanning in British industry ( Chapters 3 and 5 below ) . |