Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Hens pecked at unwanted rouble notes from piles of sacks dumped on the railway lines for no clear reason . |
| 3 | The UN closed Sarajevo airport , a vital aid lifeline for the Bosnian capital 's 380,000 population , after shells exploded at either end of the runway during fighting yesterday . |
| 4 | So as the 48 assorted classic cars arrived at Scotch Corner around 3pm Steve and Graham 's Jaguar XK150 was not among them . |
| 5 | Giant voices boomed at each other . |
| 6 | The structuralists looked at meaningful systems within their social context and analysed meaning as structured in a way analogous to language . |
| 7 | The two gentlemen looked at each other , then turned away from the house and walked on . |
| 8 | The Sherman brothers looked at each other in silence . |
| 9 | ’ Despite her anxiety , Melissa 's lips twitched at this description of Rodney Shergold , ‘ and one she called ‘ Eddie ’ . |
| 10 | Approximately 100 US soldiers , in Aden since mid-December under a bilateral agreement to provide facilities in support of " Operation Restore Hope " in Somalia [ see p. 39225 ] , were withdrawn on Dec. 31 after bombs exploded at two Aden hotels on Dec. 29 . |
| 11 | It is also clear that the prices of different commodities rose at varying rates and at different times . |
| 12 | The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) . |
| 13 | The parents glanced at each other and Mrs Hobden nodded slowly . |
| 14 | Sparks flew at last weekend 's Berkeley conference when Boaz turned up unexpectedly . |
| 15 | Raddled nets trailed at grey window-panes , flakes of plaster flecked the bare boards , newsprint , piss-yellow with age , scrunched at her feet . |
| 16 | The table shows the number of mornings and afternoons that winds blew at various strengths over a 14 day period . |
| 17 | The announcement of the measures comes more than three months after publication of the Holman report , ordered following last August 's event , when several racing boats drove at high speed in fog-shrouded Torbay — two hitting a holiday beach . |
| 18 | It is true that elephants existed at that time in the extreme south of China , but the fact that Fu Hao 's cup was studded with turquoise points to India as a possible source . |
| 19 | Argentiferous galena was also worked in Devonian sediments at Combe Martin on the north Devon coast ( MRP 90 ) and in the South-west England mining field from veins emplaced at lower temperature than , and often crosscutting , the earlier Sn-Cu veins . |
| 20 | Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops . |
| 21 | The invasion scare passed and the Troop went north to do independent training , as all Troops did at that time . |
| 22 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 23 | Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home . |
| 24 | Against the $9.5 billion of deposit liabilities outstanding at the end of 1985 , the banks had at that time only about $1.5 billion of assets in the form of dinar credits . |
| 25 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 26 | It would be naive to expect every fragment surveyed to fall neatly into a pattern in which terraces occurred at certain heights and were completely absent from the other heights . |
| 27 | Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years . |
| 28 | No lights showed at any windows . |
| 29 | First , the studies looked at local councillors themselves - at their attitudes and perceptions , at their organization and relationship with their political party , and at their political activity . |
| 30 | The remaining gangtypes looked at each other . |