Example sentences of "[vb past] at [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brows rose at this flash of spirit . |
| 2 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 3 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 4 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 5 | His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave . |
| 6 | I stopped at some lights on the East side . |
| 7 | When the train stopped at some town in Kent I got off . |
| 8 | The two then fenced at each other with their beaks , each parrying the other 's thrust . |
| 9 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 10 | All at once , I was in a wild fury of rage : I saw , not Nonni , but all the foolish and ignorant people who seemed at this moment to be conspiring together against all the forces of right and reason to poison and destroy the world . |
| 11 | The UN closed Sarajevo airport , a vital aid lifeline for the Bosnian capital 's 380,000 population , after shells exploded at either end of the runway during fighting yesterday . |
| 12 | The concept of " open skies " was first proposed by President Eisenhower in 1955 , but rejected at that time by the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year . |
| 14 | There were controversies about various forms of Church Government and many sects flourished at this time of religious toleration . |
| 15 | Indeed , the movement for total abstinence from alcohol , which also flourished at this time in Protestant and puritan countries , illustrates this clearly . |
| 16 | I happened at that time to be a Council member , and I was therefore able to point out that Bondi 's listing of observational errors were all taken from well-attested literature . |
| 17 | for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the case breaks new ground , that he acted at all times on legal advice and that wise counsel should permit the case to go before the House of Lords rather than rush to judgment now ? |
| 19 | In the course of the next week fighting flared at several points along the Armenia-Azerbaijan borders . |
| 20 | This lady informed me that she and her friend had consulted a man who claimed at that time to be the leading expert in the United States in the psychic determination of past lives . |
| 21 | John and I rebelled at this kind of regimentation but Andrew and Ernest just smiled and said nothing . |
| 22 | The Steward 's party , having cleared out the domestic quarters , arrived at that side of the keep , driving before them a crowd of servitors and general retainers , women amongst them , many only partially clad . |
| 23 | Kruk ( 1989 ) referring to non-custodial fathers in divorce , claims that those who arrived at some level of resolution of their grief were those who were in fact able to maintain regular contact with their child . |
| 24 | This white man — well , he and Herbert — arrived at this port in Borneo where Boy Monsoon lived in a thatched hut with Balbindor . |
| 25 | He arrived at this destination at the early age of 35 . |
| 26 | He arrived at these numbers by comparing reported AIDS cases in homosexual/bisexual males for the UK in 1986 and 1987 ( 785 ) with reports for 1988 and 1989 ( 1268 ) and for 1990 and 1991 ( 1907 ) . |
| 27 | As usual the author traces the history of the stations from their earliest days , 1891 in the case of Pwllheli , and has located some early photographs including one of the unusual ‘ tubular ’ lifeboat which served at this station on the Lleyn Peninsula for a short time after it was first opened . |
| 28 | It is true that elephants existed at that time in the extreme south of China , but the fact that Fu Hao 's cup was studded with turquoise points to India as a possible source . |
| 29 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 30 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |