Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry to report that I behaved rudely at this point . |
| 3 | Movement artefacts gave rapid fluctuations that occurred simultaneously at all recording sites and were easily differentiated from colonic contractions and discarded from analysis . |
| 4 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 5 | Chuck peered intently at each girl they passed , but without exception they avoided his gaze . |
| 6 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 7 | This lady was typical of the many I came across at these events . |
| 8 | Alexei Gismondi gazed calmly at this woman . |
| 9 | At the county level representatives from lower levels were permitted to vote for candidates ; the secret ballot obtained only at this level . |
| 10 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 11 | The iron-clad Monitor and Merrimack hammered away at each other in the American Civil War . |
| 12 | Colonel Fergusson nodded indulgently at such pertness and obstinacy , but held his peace . |
| 13 | He swung the gun up again , fired wildly at that thrashing form and turned back to the staircase . |
| 14 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 15 | So something happened there at that house , we told 'em the house number , where the lamp 's situated , we gave 'em all the information they they need but we still ca n't get any response . |
| 16 | The two men nodded warily at each other . |
| 17 | She grimaced a smile at each of them , and nodded hurriedly at any remark directed at her . |
| 18 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 19 | The men glanced quickly at each other . |
| 20 | She glanced now at these photographs . |
| 21 | The leaders , men-at-arms and levies of the lords and knights chafed sorely at this delay , none more so than Will Douglas . |
| 22 | He strode confidently towards a nearby tent of clear plastic sheeting , over which the gaudy Chelonian flag fluttered limply at half mast in the moaning wind . |
| 23 | He never worked long at another job and slipped easily between amateur and professional at boxing saloons in the Gorbals . |
| 24 | The two boys looked uneasily at each other , but said nothing . |
| 25 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 26 | And I recall that I laughed aloud at that stage and I believe ( the agent ) joined me in that . |
| 27 | Katya looked away at this point , the shame and embarrassment of that recollection burning in her eyes . |
| 28 | Even the pair of plumed cockatoos that normally chattered away at each other in their wrought-iron enclosure were asleep on their perches . |
| 29 | She looked heavenward at this point , and Martin wondered what she meant . |
| 30 | They stared glumly at each other for a few moments , before Laura shrugged . |