Example sentences of "[vb past] at [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 2 | Visiting Washington on Oct. 1 the Amir of Kuwait Shaikh Jabir Ahmed al-Jabir al Sabah expressed his gratitude to United States President George Bush and to the US people for withstanding " evil tendencies — motivated by false ambitions , mad greed and deep hatred — [ which ] exploded at one inauspicious moment " . |
| 3 | [ And on the next day ] Dr Hunter and Mr Cruikshanks came at 9 this morning and put my wife into the Box on and in 130 lb weight of Paris plaister at 18d a bag . |
| 4 | I was in hospital when the desperately hoped-for call came at 10.30 one Monday night . |
| 5 | With a somewhat carefree use of statistics he claimed at one National Council meeting in 1897 that the delegates represented 70,000,000 Nonconformists , on the assumption that they represented all non-Anglican and non-Roman Catholic Christians in the English-speaking world . |
| 6 | Whittingham fired at four different aircraft during this sortie , being credited with one destroyed , one probable and one damaged ; these would seem to have been an He111 and two Ju88s respectively . |
| 7 | When the CEGB 's drilling rigs arrived at one particular farm , their way was firmly blocked and a local woman and her daughter immediately chained themselves to the equipment . |
| 8 | Did n't trip over your car in the car park when I arrived at seven this morning . ’ |
| 9 | The Lab found properly locked when the Assistant Police Liaison Officer and the young C.O. arrived at eight-thirty this morning . |
| 10 | In 1959 the CNET submitted to the committee a research programme budgeted at 7 billion francs over six years . |
| 11 | Adam chuckled to himself as the four-seater Piper Arrow flew at two thousand feet across German airspace . |
| 12 | We 've got a rota system and that started at four this morning and is now full for the rest of the day , so there will be a strong presence around the building all day long . |
| 13 | The Willow Trust Novices Hurdle Race … was good … it started at 5-1 second favourite in the betting but at the off the money had piled on to make it 3-1 … |
| 14 | The six senior classes went at 5 minute intervals ( each followed a minute later by a corresponding domestic class ) , the men 's K2s going first . |
| 15 | March and February we spent on the Brenner , where we lodged at three different farmsteads . |
| 16 | Brendan Llewellyn , head of strategic marketing at Scottish Amicable , said : ‘ We looked at four different concepts in qualitative groups , and emerged with a logo which we think reflects the attributes of the company . ’ |
| 17 | The survey looked at 2,000 start-up businesses over 2½ years between 1988 and 1990 . |
| 18 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 19 | In 1990 the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ( CPT ) looked at five British prisons . |
| 20 | The decision to sell was taken a year before the deal was done and the company looked at 11 different suitors before picking Shandwick . |
| 21 | The latest report looked at 74 recorded cases of childhood cancer in the area between 1950 and 1985 . |
| 22 | For the DIY approach to building a network station I looked at two contrasting approaches to installing a network interface adaptor : the Xircom Pocket Adaptor and the Inter EtherExpress card . |
| 23 | The bank looked at 30 possible acquisitions there after the Bank of England opposed its 1981 bid for Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 24 | After carefully exploring a variety of different theoretical approaches to explaining government growth , the study looked at seven different policy areas — public assistance , elementary and secondary education , higher education , environment , unemployment , libraries and fire protection — and examined who or what was important in the process of governmental growth . |
| 25 | I looked at three dedicated file servers , from Dan Technology , RSC and Kamco . |
| 26 | George Wing had been with Hay ever since they met at 1660 Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit . |
| 27 | It left at two fifty P.M. and was crowded with people in heavy coats and fur hats who changed their mind constantly about leaving their outer clothing in the small wardrobe at the front of the cabin . |
| 28 | Oil revenue was expected to be 257,000 million francs CFA , with other revenue ( excluding loans ) set at 181,000 million francs CFA ; the investment budget was set at 102,000 million francs CFA . |
| 29 | The haul , valued at one-and-a-half million pounds is one of many such seizures ; of church property , of drugs , of guns , the K G B is now cooperating with foreign intelligence agencies against Mafia and drugs barons inside the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | In 1947 German coal and steel production stood at 130 million tons and 3 million tons respectively — by 1952 the figures were 208 million tons and almost 16 million tons . |