Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
| 2 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |
| 3 | He unseated his rider once and fell at the 7th in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 4 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 5 | 2.05:TOP weight Bradbury Star , who fell at the first in this race last year , has an excellent chance to gain compensation . |
| 6 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 7 | I looked at the two of them , ‘ You ought to go and have yourselves examined . ’ |
| 8 | She looked at the three of them : an old woman , herself not yet seventeen , and a raw child of fourteen . |
| 9 | What precipitated the final crisis with Penda and the attack on Oswiu which culminated at the Winwaed on 15 November in 655 or 656 is obscure but Penda was almost certainly the primary moving force , the centre of a coalition which included Cadafael , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) , Aethelhere , king of the eastern Angles , and Oethelwald , king of the Deirans ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 10 | When we performed at The Intimate in Palmers Green , he was paid £7.10 and at the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill Gate , I think he was paid about £4 . |
| 11 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 12 | Once I ran at a fair in the noise |
| 13 | A serious petrol shortage is only making things worse — bus travel , crowded at the best of times , is now cruel and inhumane . |