Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started my long walk , interspersed with running sessions to deliver the papers to Mr. Brooks , the Head Gardener at Godolphin School , who lived right at the bottom of Laverstock Road , a distance of almost a mile . |
| 2 | A year later he moved to Bury , and then in 1896 to Ganton , where he stayed until 1902 , when he became professional at the South Herts Club in Totteridge , north London . |
| 3 | All the dinosaurs , vegetarian and carnivore alike , became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period ( see p. 135 ) . |
| 4 | Indeed , so long was their duration on Earth that those species which became extinct at the end were quite unlike those evolving from the reptiles in the early Triassic . |
| 5 | Not until after the dinosaurs finally became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous did the mammals radiate explosively into a great diversity of forms such as we see today , to occupy an even wider range of ecological niches than those vacated by the dinosaurs . |
| 6 | Thomas Davidson became deaf at the age of four due to illness and was educated as a private pupil of Dr. Thomas Watson of the Old Kent Road Asylum . |
| 7 | Born in Taunton , Somerset to a wealthy coal merchant , he became deaf at the age of 5 due to illness . |
| 8 | Third in this trilogy of deaf men of remarkable achievements of this era who were mainly oralist but who respected those that used sign language was Abraham Farrar , born at Leeds , who became deaf at the age of 3 due to scarlet fever . |
| 9 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 10 | Mr Todd made clear at the weekend that he thought Mr Field was a bad loser , saying he appeared to think he was God 's gift to Birkenhead . |
| 11 | But as the Queen made clear at the Guildhall , if the family is to answer its critics it needs understanding from without as well as obedience from within . |
| 12 | The Committee met weekly at the Thatch 'd House Tavern in St James 's Street and for that reason became known as The Thatched House Society . |
| 13 | Besides , he got embarrassed at the stares people gave Slater , even if Slater himself did n't seem to notice . |
| 14 | They have , however , put on their habits for various demos , vogued onstage at an Edinburgh Larks In The Park festival , dominated the dancefloor at Sign Of The Times parties , made Derek Jarman a saint , performed weddings , house blessings and baptisms , and now granted THE FACE a nihil obstat . |
| 15 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 16 | Jennifer was about to reply but stopped short at the look on the other woman 's face . |
| 17 | Horribly frightened by this time , for she could not believe that Susan would have gone out of the house , she ran into the kitchen , and stopped short at the sight of the familiar figure sitting crouched in front of the fire . |
| 18 | The new experience everyone enjoyed was eating bananas and it was a great disappointment when the supply stopped short at the beginning of the war . |
| 19 | Dot remembered how the bowl of each spoon at Mrs Parvis 's was stained a streaky brown , and bent crooked at the shaft , with NAAFI stamped on the handle . |
| 20 | But Hartington soon became alarmed at the plans to give increased powers to what he termed ‘ fanatical local authorities ’ , and he wrote to Rosebery asking him to withdraw support for the measures . |
| 21 | Not unexpectedly , the residents of Chiswick became alarmed at the prospect , but the acquisition proceeded of the properties on the proposed route . |
| 22 | Housing associations received a major boost from the Housing Act 1974 when a new once-and-for-all capital grant became payable at the outset of each scheme ( Baker 1976 ; Lansley 1979 ) . |
| 23 | It came alive at the touch of her delectable lips , and she could feel his zealous prong swelling inside her mouth . |
| 24 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 25 | Allied commanders seemed delighted at the outcome . |
| 26 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 27 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 28 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 29 | ‘ But I kept trying my hardest and came good at the end . ’ |
| 30 | The senator , ever affable , seemed unworried at the thought of taking the Maggot into polite society . |