Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He excelled at grumpy anti-social males , harassed mothers , and their stony-faced domestic servants . |
| 2 | It ran in MkII guise from 1954 to 1955 , but its six wins all came at insignificant domestic races . |
| 3 | When she looked at poor little Hoomey , she was filled with pity for him being so hopeless . |
| 4 | Together they looked at huge bound tomes which contained drawings by the Wardley ancestors on the Grand Tour — ‘ Great Uncle Charles , died of pneumonia in Genoa , ’ she snorted as she closed his sketchbook and picked up a folio of the architecture of Rome , Naples and the Campagna . |
| 5 | Twice last week she appeared at stage-managed public engagements with her husband , smiling and gazing at him . |
| 6 | Colonel of the 1st Essex Volunteers , spoke at large pro-ally demonstrations of no peace until the defeat of the Habsburgs , and refused cooperation with German socialists , while the dockers ' leader Ben Tillett railed against German atrocities and pacifist black legs ( SE 20 July 18 ) . |
| 7 | In muscles receiving delayed innervation , or muscles innervated at aberrant synaptic sites , both receptor clustering and receptor synthesis are delayed or redirected , consistent with the new pattern of innervation . |
| 8 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 9 | To the north of Joseph , two companies of cavalry and one of Crow scouts waited at Mammoth Hot Springs ; General George Crook had deployed five cavalry companies on Shoshoni River and ten 5th Cavalry companies on Wind River to the east and south-east respectively ; Colonel Nelson ‘ Bearcoat ’ Miles lurked at Fort Keogh ; and in the north-east Colonel S.D. Sturgis ' six 7th Cavalry companies , accompanied by Crow scouts , waited on Clark 's Fork . |