Example sentences of "[vb past] at [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I myself , not having much knowledge of computer electronics called for the services of a professional Computer Engineer , after explaining the symptoms he gave the PC a thorough check , he then informed me no fault could be found but suggested that as the problem was intermittent and the PC was somewhat old , it could be susceptible to noise not conducted but radiated at some external source , Radio Frequency Interference ( R.F.I. ) . |
| 2 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 3 | In Clwyd , the terminal at Point of Ayr promised at most 132 jobs for the duration of the drilling process , she said . |
| 4 | ‘ Then there was the beardo-weirdo , ’ Melissa winced at this pejorative reference to Barney , ‘ and the Wednesday creep . |
| 5 | And in that moment , as he winced at this new casualty , he lost the advantage that the suddenness of his irruption into the gun chamber had given him . |
| 6 | The assembled crowd rejoiced at this unexpected joy , and Luch stood quietly unnoticed by the steps as they all turned away to where Abbot Kenneth stood in a perfect haze of delight . |
| 7 | We found some superb powder — all to ourselves , until we stopped at another excellent mountain restaurant at Le Prariond . |
| 8 | Er and we found at that earlier stage , they acted largely independently . |
| 9 | Satirical description of a type found at all social gatherings ( in this case a group of habitués of a public-house parlour ) who holds forth in an oracular manner on public affairs . |
| 10 | And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching . |
| 11 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 12 | While men like Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk , and Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , were prepared to accept the royal supremacy , they baulked at these evangelical reforms , which in their view smacked of heresy and threatened to lead England into the Lutheran camp . |
| 13 | I do n't know what happened at this particular gig , but I know it was his home town — it was the most important gig to David because it was in front of a home crowd . |
| 14 | The attack happened at this pyschiatric unit at Torquay in Devon . |
| 15 | That is what happened at both Imperial Typewriters in Leicester and at Mansfield Hosiery in Loughborough . |
| 16 | These forces intersected at that crucial site for modern ideology , the family , which they both helped to build and sustain . |
| 17 | Paige frowned at this new tack . |
| 18 | Being extremely fond of naming things , especially after themselves , the sixty-man senate arrived at this particular figure without much in the way of heated debate . |
| 19 | He had we started out somewhere I had no idea where we were going , until we arrived at this big building with a high railing surrounding the yard and a crowd of children shouting and playing in the yard . |
| 20 | Her interest in cosmetics , like that of her friend Alix Bowen , was minimal , but , like Alix Bowen , she decided that it was after all a festive occasion , and she began at this late moment to apply a little mascara . |
| 21 | Understandably , she fretted at this circumscribed lifestyle , but another episode of somewhat more serious bleeding two weeks ago had convinced everyone that the programme of rest and professional care was not an overcautious one . |
| 22 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |
| 23 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 24 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 25 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |
| 26 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 27 | Some employers , faced by likely future compulsion ( under EC law ) to include part-timers within occupational pension schemes where full-timers are eligible , are now taking up their rights under the Social Security Act 1986 to provide money purchase ( rather than ‘ final salary'/ ‘ defined benefits ’ ) contracted-out occupational pension schemes or COMPS ( see Ward , 1990 , pp. 37–9 ) targeted at those occupational groups which include preponderantly female lower-paid staff . |
| 28 | We called at several small shops and houses in the better-class district which we called ‘ the kippers and curtains ’ . |
| 29 | It started at that triumphant dinner party last Thursday . |
| 30 | None of them do , there 's no space for it , but there were twelve other people who died at that same time at Dornhausen , and four more from Dornhausen who died in the Karls Hospital at Bad Schwarzendorn at times later in the day . ’ |