Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southall , who admitted speeding at an earlier hearing , was fined Pounds 700 and given six penalty points . |
| 2 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 3 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 4 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |
| 5 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 6 | Bettino Craxi , whose leadership of the Socialist Unity Party was under serious challenge [ see p. 39114 ] , announced on Nov. 7 that he proposed to resign at an unspecified date and suggested Prime Minister Giuliano Amato as his successor . |
| 7 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 8 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |
| 9 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 10 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 11 | It was a late start because of the poor education he 'd received at the local Protestant school . |
| 12 | His suicide , in protest at the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact — only Romania declined to participate - seemed to catch at the Western conscience as somehow symbolic of those dreadful days , though it produced no result other than a further deepening of the Cold War . |
| 13 | Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road . |
| 14 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 15 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 16 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 17 | Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her . |
| 18 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 19 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 20 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 21 | One evening Leopold Zborowski , a Polish poet , came to look at the modern paintings exhibited and was immediately taken by Modigliani 's remarkable talent . |
| 22 | He noted given unto a Newlands man who came to look at the supposed Wad Mine at Conistone 5s . " |
| 23 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
| 24 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 25 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 26 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 27 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
| 28 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 29 | Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador came to speak at the White Rock Pavilion , Hastings , at his request . |
| 30 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |