Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I have with me Mrs. Julia Knight and Dr. Michael Eraut , who , together with Tony Becher , have recently completed a study that looked at parental involvement in primary schools . |
| 2 | It was as if Chapman were a captain trying to keep afloat on a treacherous sea in a small boat that threatened at any moment to spring a leak . |
| 3 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 4 | Upon returning to London he joined the Oriental Club and resided at Upper Belgrave Street , where he died 27 February 1843 . |
| 5 | She performed with great natural charm in a television interview and marvelled at all the stretch-limousines she rode in . |
| 6 | The girl followed his glance and looked at those triumphs of taxidermy with distaste . |
| 7 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 8 | When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea . |
| 9 | THE Bank of England took immediate advantage of surging demand for gilt-edged securities yesterday by raising £3 billion in an unprecedented exercise that started at 2.30 am . |
| 10 | To give himself a moment to recover control , he looked again out of the window and spoke at random . |
| 11 | Even where workers moved away from their villages for good , most maintained contact with their places of origin and visited at regular intervals . |
| 12 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 13 | Charles opened the folder and looked at all the photographs . |
| 14 | It was sent to her home and came at last to her family . |
| 15 | After reflux the sample was cooled on ice and centrifuged at 1500 g for 15 minutes . |
| 16 | Briefly , tumours or mucosal scrapings were homogenised in TEA buffer ( 250 mM sucrose , 10 mM triethanolamine ( pH 7.6 ) containing 1 mM phenylmethylsuphonylfluoride ( PMSF ) and 1 mM N-ethylmaleimide as protease inhibitors ) on ice and centrifuged at 1000 g for 10 minutes . |
| 17 | The ground radio had reports of a gang shooting at the corner of La Brea and Rodeo , and Provenzano dipped the chopper to the west and flew at 130 mph to reach the site . |
| 18 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 19 | It took Paul five hours to buy all the materials from Waitrose , Safeway and a man in the high street with a shop that shut at two-thirty on Saturdays . |
| 20 | He continued as a civilian in GCHQ after the war and retired at assistant secretary level in 1954 . |
| 21 | This was placed in a sterile universal tube and centrifuged at 14000 revolutions per minute for 4 minutes as previously described to elute sample DNA . |
| 22 | Robyn entered the tiny shop and bought at random , grabbing anything that was familiar — an odd assortment of things that would sustain her with the least amount of effort , paying her money to the assistant vaguely , absent-mindedly . |
| 23 | She became a teacher and taught at various schools including the Special School and the Beverley School for the Deaf . |
| 24 | July 19 : Cessna 180J N9962N unable to climb out of canyon and crashed at New Castle , Wyoming . |
| 25 | After removal of the stomach , a 50–100 mg full thickness strip from the oxyntic region was immediately homogenised in 3.5 ml of 0.01 M hydrochloric acid and centrifuged at 2000 g for 15 minutes before removal of the supernatant for the following measurements : |
| 26 | Marshall took 10 for 92 in that match but arrived at Old Trafford for the third Test reportedly with a rib injury . |
| 27 | Two senior Chilean intelligence officers of the Pinochet regime , Gen. Juan Manuel Contreras of the DINA secret police and Lt. Col. Pedro Espinosa , had also been indicted in the case but remained at large in Chile [ see also pp. 36346 ; 36931 ] . |
| 28 | For many years , old time Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Young did work there , cutting across the divide with a brand of comedy that hit at both sides . |
| 29 | I had nothing to do but paddle , and my fingers blistered as we canoed around Laguna Grande while the Australian , crouched in the bow with his bazooka lens , shook his head and tutted at each audible paddle stroke . |
| 30 | He turned his head and glared at Sabine . |