Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 3 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 4 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 5 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 6 | Nausea overwhelmed her at last . |
| 7 | If Pindar in the Thirteenth Olympian meant anything at all by saying that the Muses breathed sweetly over Corinth , he was not referring to his own day but perhaps to that of the Corinthian Arion who invented the dithyramb . |
| 8 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 9 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 10 | The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed . |
| 11 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 12 | Her scorn stung him at last . |
| 13 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 14 | In other words , by the 1770s and after Berton 's reforms , debate had nothing at all to do with audible stick signals , but everything to do with the presence of a conducteur , communicating visually . |
| 15 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |
| 16 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 17 | For neither he nor anyone in his following had anything at all apart from the clothes they stood up in and their weapons and horses . |
| 18 | The Archdeacon accused himself at many levels , not the least professional . |
| 19 | Thereafter things improved ; we got several thousand corners while Arse got none at all . |
| 20 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 21 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 22 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 23 | Has all the nonsense off the field distracted you at all , made your h job harder ? |
| 24 | The next morning Dad woke him at eight . |
| 25 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 26 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 27 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 28 | The only caller who stayed for any length of time said nothing at all . |
| 29 | Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme . |
| 30 | The gentleman here in the front had it at twenty four . |