Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 2 | He stopped in Ipswich at one of the new-style Shell service stations . |
| 3 | Remember what you were saying on Sunday evening — about misogyny , and the kind of attitudes instilled in boys at public schools ? |
| 4 | He often said that religious fasts were bad for the health , and ate in moderation at all times . |
| 5 | A session set for May 13 was cancelled , and resumed negotiations were again suspended on May 27 when the ethnic-Moslem Party of Democratic Action ( SDA — chaired by Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic ) withdrew in protest at alleged Serbian atrocities in Sarajevo , including the shelling of a maternity hospital on May 25-26 , and a mortar attack on civilians queuing for bread on May 27 in which more than 20 people were killed . |
| 6 | Pascoe arrived in Longrock at four in the afternoon . |
| 7 | It were six Five or six o'clock in the morning I think I arrived in Aberdeen at six o'clock . |
| 8 | ‘ The English police report that Basil went to Paris on the midnight train on the ninth of November , but the French police say that he never arrived in Paris at all . |
| 9 | The convoy arrived in Gorazde at 9.30 on May 2 . |
| 10 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 11 | DESIGNER SOCIALISM arrived in Hungary at 17 minutes past eight on Saturday night , when delegates to the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party congress voted overwhelmingly to drop ‘ Workers ’ from their title . |
| 12 | Recently a parcel for delivery next morning from London to Aberystwyth was put on the Down Cambrian and arrived in Aberystwyth at 2100 . |
| 13 | A surreptitious study of the timetables revealed that there was a bus at 2 p.m. which got to Darrowby at five o'clock , and another leaving Darrowby at six which arrived in Scarborough at nine . |
| 14 | Without denying the value of this approach , poll book analysis is really the wrong place to start if we are interested in determining the extent to which party tensions existed in society at large . |
| 15 | Mr Mukhametshin , a 39-year-old Tatar who grew up in the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan , began in business at 13 when he apprenticed himself to a family of travelling ice-cream makers . |
| 16 | So , even with players of the class of Steve Hampson and Andy Goodway missing , Wigan look formidably strong , and Castleford will do well to repeat the victory they achieved in October at Central Park — the last time Wigan lost . |
| 17 | The film director Michael Law whom Minton met in Soho at this time has provided a vivid metaphor for his condition : ‘ Johnny was really like a clock with the machinery hanging out . |
| 18 | City : Scot Met in red at halfway |
| 19 | A Polish couple who lived in Cambuslang at that time regularly frequented the Shop in search of children 's clothes . |
| 20 | It has been estimated that between 1580 and 1650 London probably absorbed half the national increase of England 's population and that about one in every eight English people lived in London at some stage of their lives ; after 1650 the proportion was as high as one in six . |
| 21 | Early on June 30 a small group of Army officers led by Lt. Mwamba Luchembe succeeded in broadcasting at regular intervals over 90 minutes a message on national radio saying that the Army had taken over in response to the food price rises . |
| 22 | They gazed in wonder at this goddess , and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage . |
| 23 | The survival of a strong monarchy in Germany in the tenth and eleventh centuries , and the fact that a weak monarchy survived in France at all , bear witness to the importance of the Church and of churchmen in the making of medieval kingship . |
| 24 | Part of him hankered after the poetic Victorian times when women died in childbirth at twenty leaving their partner free to get another young girl . |
| 25 | The bloodiest massacres were on Aug. 3 , when 140 reportedly died in attacks at two mosques in Kattankudy ; on Aug. 6 , when 58 bodies were recovered after two incidents ; and on Aug. 11-12 , when 100-170 were reported killed at Eravur in the Batticaloa region . |
| 26 | The little tailor , as I have told you , was first and foremost a craftsman , and he stared in wonder at this beautiful model and could not begin to imagine what fine tools or instruments had carved and wrought it . |
| 27 | Just as we fell in love at first sight with our new home , so we fell in love with you and Nigel at first meeting . |
| 28 | I first met this pretty parasite in a string of pork sausages ( how romantic ! ) and fell in love at first sight . |
| 29 | This resulted in convection at high Rayleigh number ( Ra10 8 –10 9 ) with turbulent velocities at least two orders of magnitude greater than the settling velocities of the particles . |
| 30 | The teaching profession grew in strength at this time , developing a formal system of training to replace the nineteenth-century pupil teacher system . |