Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately the hind legs became strengthened at the expense of the front ones . |
| 2 | West Brom were then safe and were not too bothered about letting Stoke beat them to send Leeds down after the trouble that Leeds fans had caused at the Hawthorns . |
| 3 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |
| 4 | According to Le Monde of April 19 some Dev Sol fighters had trained at the PKK camp in the Bekaa [ see also p. 38833 ] . |
| 5 | The crossflow of cars had stopped at the sound of the approaching siren and now drivers and passengers and a small number of pedestrians were all looking around , uncertain of the direction . |
| 6 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |
| 7 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 8 | After Munich , however , even many Conservatives became disturbed at the failure to halt German expansion and some of the Left , encouraged by the Communists , found themselves seeking alliances with old enemies like Churchill or Lloyd George on the basis of common opposition to Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 9 | Their prosecutors at the trial of the politburo took pleasure in revealing how many cartons of Western cigarettes each of the defendants had possessed at the time of the revolution . |
| 10 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 11 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 12 | All the ski instructors had gathered at the bottom of the small slope . |
| 13 | One of the models had peeked at the audience from behind the heavy velvet curtains that draped the stage and reported breathlessly that every spindly-legged gilt chair in the crowded hall was taken . |
| 14 | Erm , immediately as we went in it was er a very poorly furnished room erm I 'm going in there 's a window on the far side and there was a small single bed erm which to all intents and purposes appeared un-made at the time and there was a duvet covering it |
| 15 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 16 | The kidnapping of his friend 's son , the policy of intermittent , small-scale attacks , together with the persistent driving winds ( no hurricane had hit , but nevertheless the autumn gales had torn at the trees all night and blown his nerves to bits ) , and the impending birth of his child by the savage girl who 'd taken possession of him — all this harried Kit Everard in his sleep until more than once , he was ready to move on , find another island , preferably entirely uninhabited . |
| 17 | Athelstan closed his eyes and breathed a prayer as he glimpsed the blue-black holes where the hungry ravens had pecked at the scrawny , whitening flesh . |
| 18 | ‘ My waters had broken at the bedside , ’ says Liz . |
| 19 | Things had changed at the house in Chelsea . |
| 20 | Ten figures had appeared at the summit of the ridge . |
| 21 | Well , the revels master returned , saying that some masked noble figures had arrived at the water stairs . |
| 22 | One could ask , therefore , what role is ascribed in Formalist theory to the author , on whom biographical criticism had been based ; what had become of the reality which mimetic and historically orientated theories had placed at the centre of their concerns ; and finally what function it gives to thought , which had been the focus of philosophically biased criticisms . |
| 23 | He remembered all the nights when his sisters had sat at the end of his bed and sobbed their hearts out over some man . |
| 24 | After he had reached home , two men in police uniforms had appeared at the door , waved a piece of paper which they said was a warrant for his arrest . |
| 25 | I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education . |
| 26 | In the previous year the Cubists and a large number of their friends had exhibited at the Galerie de l'Art Contemporain in the rue Tronchet , under the auspices of the Societe Normande de Peinture Moderne . |
| 27 | By early Tuesday afternoon , however , pro-Noriega forces had arrived at the military command headquarters , where General Noriega was apparently being held , and the rebels surrendered . |
| 28 | He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements . |
| 29 | Bosnia-Hercegovina 's ethnic leaders had agreed at the April 23 round of EC peace talks to continue their March 18 accord [ see p. 38832 ] to negotiate a new constitution . |
| 30 | The men had arrived at the empty farmhouse fifteen hours earlier , just as dusk was falling . |