Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hens pecked at unwanted rouble notes from piles of sacks dumped on the railway lines for no clear reason . |
| 2 | So as the 48 assorted classic cars arrived at Scotch Corner around 3pm Steve and Graham 's Jaguar XK150 was not among them . |
| 3 | The structuralists looked at meaningful systems within their social context and analysed meaning as structured in a way analogous to language . |
| 4 | It is also clear that the prices of different commodities rose at varying rates and at different times . |
| 5 | Raddled nets trailed at grey window-panes , flakes of plaster flecked the bare boards , newsprint , piss-yellow with age , scrunched at her feet . |
| 6 | The table shows the number of mornings and afternoons that winds blew at various strengths over a 14 day period . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most military personnel were members of the CPSU or Komsomol , and military figures appeared at high levels in party organizations . |
| 13 | If your psychoanalysis is reports , and not just the actions , of it can be a , used as arguments to er , allow this story to emphasise what the human ages evolved at specific suicide of men , erm , goes on to show examples of his erm , he actually claimed to have used this as a sort of process of identification of even fantasizing , in order to try and er demonstrate how er , I think it was Hadrian 's Wall was built , try to identify with engineers and architects who built Hadrian 's Wall , in order to try and work out what the actual function of the wall was . |
| 14 | Indemnities for specific items already identified by the key features review and any further items discovered at due diligence . |
| 15 | Five male cases died at mean age 47.8 , compared with two controls at 49.5 . |
| 16 | The establishment of the Central American Parliament ( Parlacén ) [ see p. 38528 ] was welcomed , as was the signing at the summit of the Protocol of Reforms to the Organization of Central American States ( ODECA ) Charter and the establishment of the System for Central American Integration to ensure that decisions reached at presidential meetings were implemented . |
| 17 | The difficult task for the historian is to get the balance right for each General Election , and to assess the various ways in which local and national issues interacted at different times in different constituencies . |
| 18 | She was too young , too soft and new , to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short , straight , smooth lines of her own experience . |
| 19 | During the first two weeks about 180 children arrived at Great Engeham . |
| 20 | My wife Suzie and I spent some of the cash having an extension put on our house in Willesden and it was also around that time that our children started at private school . |
| 21 | As the family kept vigil , the children saw at close quarters the stubborn determination of their stepmother . |
| 22 | Kestrels hovered at regular intervals down our motorway route . |
| 23 | Featureless blocks as big as warehouses jutted at crazy angles from a bald hemisphere . |
| 24 | Incidents occurred at nuclear power stations in Spain and Lithuania during February . |
| 25 | A more recent summary of profit trends arrived at similar conclusions and also showed that the decline in profitability in the UK was sharper than that in other countries , as Table 5.3 indicates . |
| 26 | Kangaroos and horses arrived at different endpoints in " animal space " , probably because of some accidental difference in their starting points . |
| 27 | The soldiers jogged at full speed , M-29s jiggling in their arms . |
| 28 | It was ironical that he should have made a magical 153 against Notts , while England 's batsmen floundered at Old Trafford . |
| 29 | Magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges are derived from the upper mantle . |
| 30 | CANBERRA RAIDERS arrived at Old Trafford yesterday with a complaint . |