Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [adj] [noun sg] " 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 two gentlemen looked at each other , then turned away from the house and walked on . |
| 7 | The Sherman brothers looked at each other in silence . |
| 8 | ’ Despite her anxiety , Melissa 's lips twitched at this description of Rodney Shergold , ‘ and one she called ‘ Eddie ’ . |
| 9 | The parents glanced at each other and Mrs Hobden nodded slowly . |
| 10 | Sparks flew at last weekend 's Berkeley conference when Boaz turned up unexpectedly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The invasion scare passed and the Troop went north to do independent training , as all Troops did at that time . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years . |
| 19 | The remaining gangtypes looked at each other . |
| 20 | We three males looked at each other , then meekly trooped to the circular dining table laid out near the window . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The word was high-pitched and the sisters glanced at each other and laughed in their different keys , and they all repeated together , ‘ Me ? ’ and Belle , looking from Rene to Florence , said , ‘ Who does she think is going to wear it , one of us ? ’ |
| 23 | Indemnities for specific items already identified by the key features review and any further items discovered at due diligence . |
| 24 | ‘ Free Calley ’ stickers appeared on cars across the country , flags flew at half mast , veterans returned their medals , a song called ‘ The Battle Hymn of Lieutenant Calley ’ sold 200,000 copies in three days , and new recruits at US Army bases drilled to ‘ Calley , Calley , he 's our man ’ . |
| 25 | The sisters looked at each other and shook their heads . |
| 26 | The servants looked at each other in great confusion . |
| 27 | The sisters stared at each other for a split second and then Jenny flung herself on Sara , crying incoherently . |
| 28 | It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order . |
| 29 | Five male cases died at mean age 47.8 , compared with two controls at 49.5 . |
| 30 | The same inactivity seemed to apply on the wider front , with the two armies static , no assault on the fords , where opposing guardians stared at each other across two hundred yards of water . |