Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 2 | The snow had drifted at one end , at the beck of the wind , so that it reached almost to the eaves of the roof . |
| 3 | The water cooled too quickly for her to stay long in the bath , but afterwards she lay fully dressed on the bed for a while , listening , her spirits rising as she realised that the wind had dropped at last . |
| 4 | Eddie explained that the day 's work had started at seven o'clock the previous evening when two customers telephoned requesting samples . |
| 5 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 6 | The boy had scoffed at this but Farag had told him to wait and see . |
| 7 | Indeed , recently a journalist from The Lady had hinted at some connection between the heroine and Lily . |
| 8 | The girl had struggled at first , but Bernice had reassured her : They 'll bring me to you in just a minute , she 'd said . |
| 9 | The body lay twisted at impossible angles . |
| 10 | In June 1934 membership had stood at 21,861 . |
| 11 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 12 | She declined to say if the supermarket group had looked at alternative sites in the town . |
| 13 | The Sri Lankan government on April 1 issued a denial of claims that its navy had shot at two Indian fishing trawlers in the prawn-catching area off the north of the island on March 11 and 16 ; seven people were still missing after the latter incident . |
| 14 | Although the courts ' attitude to reports leading to legislation has varied , until recently there was no modern case in which the court had looked at parliamentary debates as an aid to construction . |
| 15 | Even the child in Molly 's arms smiled sleepily when her sisters told her that the water had come at last . |
| 16 | It could have been worse ; since the first strike had occurred at 9.30 p.m. after the main factory work-hours , and only a skeleton-crew shift had been in operation at that time . |
| 17 | His day had started at 4.30 with the bleeping of his wrist-watch alarm . |
| 18 | The heyday of scientific economics had arrived at last . |
| 19 | Miss Waters was certain that this was so , but she would be most interested to hear how her friend had arrived at that conclusion . |
| 20 | But the service had looked at 18 areas and applied a Home Office computer to determine which fire station turns out first to a fire . |
| 21 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 22 | In 1918 the exchange rate had stood at 1 US dollar to 9 Polish marks ; by 1923 the rate was 1 US dollar to 15 million Polish marks . |
| 23 | Lewis 's father had died at sixty and his grandfather at sixty-two . |
| 24 | While the ACP countries had sought an overall package totalling 15,500 million European currency units ( 1 ECU=USdollars 1.11661 as at Oct. 27 , 1989 ) over five years , the EC 's offer had stood at 10,800 million ECU when talks broke down on Oct. 30 . |
| 25 | If the debate had started at 10 pm when it was scheduled to start , and if the normal business of the House had continued , many more hon. Ladies and hon. Gentlemen from both sides of the House would be here tonight . |
| 26 | The call had come at 6.12 precisely . |
| 27 | For one thing , it was now plain that there was little alternative : during the war Indianization of both the ICS and the Indian army had proceeded at such a pace that more than half the ICS and more than half the officers of the Indian army were Indian , and this was not a process to which the brake could suddenly be applied . |
| 28 | A friend indicated that the Army had seemed at first to understand when the WRAC driver said she feared other Paratroopers would victimise her for ‘ squealing ’ on their pals . |
| 29 | And the plane had crashed at 11.10 , or thereabouts . |
| 30 | The lesson had started at 2.30 and finished at 2.38 with both instructor and pupil wet through and hacked off . |