Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 2 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 3 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |
| 4 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 5 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 6 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 7 | If he 'd driven at 40 miles an hour he would have driven straight past . |
| 8 | If you wanted to kill someone , and you 'd struck at one kidney , you 'd certainly strike at the other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 11 | Horowitz , who preferred travelling light , had suitcases with clothes packed deposited at various locations all over Europe . |
| 12 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 13 | The body lay twisted at impossible angles . |
| 14 | He was blond with deep-set brown eyes which looked troubled at this moment , and he was well dressed . |
| 15 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 16 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 17 | How could she accuse the traditional education he had received at Welsh hands , when she herself was not entirely innocent ? |
| 18 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 19 | This band was expanded by the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1979 to extend from 88 to 108 MHz — previously it had stopped at 100 MHz . |
| 20 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 21 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 22 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 23 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 24 | It had been gentle , a sweet , surprised discovering , and they had looked at each other shyly afterwards , unable to speak . |
| 25 | The girls had looked at each other curiously and Antonia had trailed obediently after the older woman . |
| 26 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 27 | She declined to say if the supermarket group had looked at alternative sites in the town . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 30 | Mr Banks , a member of the North-East Regional Schools Security Group and vice-chairman of the Association of Local Authority Risk Managers ( Alarm ) , said the county had looked at various ways of improving security in schools . |