Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 2 | E/A turned and made off East at the same time as we sighted him . |
| 3 | She brushed aside criticism at the Party Conference of 1946 by asserting of the different types of school : If the teachers get the same pay , if the holidays are the same and if , as far as possible , the buildings are as good in each case , then you get in practice the parity for which the teachers are quite rightly asking . |
| 4 | Leicester Crusaders , a touring side based on Leicester and including current players Simon Povoas and Jez Harris , took on Oyonnax at the end of the French club 's most successful ever season . |
| 5 | One of Egan 's last gestures before Ford took over Jaguar at the end of 1989 was to give the go-ahead for a limited production of 350 XJ220s . |
| 6 | Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground . |
| 7 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 8 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 9 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 10 | Naively he regarded it as ‘ no big deal ’ and at times he became quite testy at the attention it commanded . |
| 11 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 12 | They took the briefs and carried the tablets of stone back to their Branches , where this particular Manager gave out hell at the futility of it all . |
| 13 | The other five he spread out flat at the bottom of the executive case . |