Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , though , it was considered taboo — a place scientists should not tread — until the tide apparently turned at the 1986 international conference of human geneticists in Berlin , where participants openly discussed the possibilities . |
| 2 | The oars dipped unhurriedly in the calm water , and when the boat eventually arrived at the shore there was a further infuriating delay before the procession formed up and began making its way round the harbour to Ballingolin . |
| 3 | A police car finally arrived at the scene and officers spoke to the motorist . |
| 4 | His mind usually stayed at the level of gossip and anecdote but not always . |
| 5 | It was not difficult for Lewis to find his way to the Kemps ' home in Cherwell Lodge , the ground-floor flat on the extreme right of the three-storey building , since it was the only window in the whole street , let alone the block of flats , wherein electric light still blazed at a quarter to one that morning . |
| 6 | More ominously , the well-dressed young stranger always appeared at the tavern around the same time the mysterious woman and her page were about to leave . |
| 7 | The economy-minded president even stayed at the four-star Buda Penta Hotel rather than the grander Grand Hotel overlooking the Danube . |
| 8 | From 1900 to 1913 European investment abroad ran at an average of £350 million a year , to the real benefit of the receiving countries . |
| 9 | The judge effectively looked at the overall plan and examined the position before and after the plan in order to see where the element of bounty lay . |
| 10 | This desperate cry for help eventually arrived at the parson 's house in Emminster . |
| 11 | However , even Iran 's interest in CENTO dwindled in the 1970s and the Pact finally collapsed at the end of the decade when both Iran and Pakistan withdrew . |
| 12 | The torchlight still flickered at the windows , and there were faint bursts of song filtering out . |
| 13 | Kaloghlian surprisingly appeared at the congress this weekend in an attempt to regain his seat . |
| 14 | The Committee then looked at the approach taken in Victoria , Australia , where the relevant statute lists special factors which will convert an indecent assault into an aggravated one . |
| 15 | Frederica too looked at the motorbike and remembered her sanguinary defloration . |
| 16 | As exemplified by the year two data shown in Table III , fewer patients with ileal and caecal inflammation or ileal inflammation alone grew at a subnormal velocity . |
| 17 | The prevalence of a state is defined as the proportion of a population so categorized at a given point of time regardless of when those affected entered the state . |
| 18 | The Trap somehow appeared at the easiest end of the HVS graded list ; it should be at the top ! |
| 19 | Though the firms eventually chose America 's General Dynamics ( having had their second choice , McDonnell Douglas , and their first choice , going it alone , overruled by the Japanese government ) , the group also looked at the Panavia Tornado , the Anglo-American Harrier it and the Swedish Gripen . |
| 20 | It is for that reason that the education process initially started at the most senior levels and included the allocation to C&P deputy chief executive Ralph Hodge of overall responsibility for quality improvement . |
| 21 | The Marshal only stared at the warrant , his great eyes bulging more than ever . |
| 22 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 23 | ( The court also looked at the methodology and decided that the expert had been right about it anyway . ) |
| 24 | He was not vain , but he was quietly proud of his literary achievements and that pride sometimes showed at the edges . |
| 25 | It was not the existence of the risk which mattered , so much as ( a ) the degree to which it enhanced the prejudice already created by the great publicity which all these matters had attracted in Hong Kong during the preceding years , and ( b ) the degree to which this additional risk could be neutralised by the trial judge when the B.M.F.L. prosecution eventually arrived at a hearing : see Reg. v. Kray ( 1969 ) 53 Cr.App.R. 412 . |
| 26 | When the unpleasant severed object finally arrived at the hospital a nurse said brightly , normally one would , fingers crossed ! |
| 27 | Victoria , at last , went to sleep and did not see the slow beginnings of London nor wake when the train finally halted at the arched and echoing terminus . |
| 28 | The train still stood at the platform ; and a group of Post Office workers were lobbing a stack of bulging mail-bags into the guard 's van . |
| 29 | The owner always stayed at the back with his mongrel at his feet , unless one called him out , and paid no attention to potential customers . |
| 30 | Underlying all this is a more fundamental problem , during the heady nineteen eighties , the British home owner positively salivated at the idea of the monthly advance in the so called value of his or her property . |