Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brows rose at this flash of spirit . |
| 2 | Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper . |
| 5 | The French report , via the International Red Cross , stated that the aircraft crashed at 00.30 hours on September 18 . |
| 6 | The stunt was practised in slow motion , before the cameras rolled and captured Crawford zooming between the lorry 's wheels as it moved at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 9 | His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave . |
| 10 | Byas held on to his third catch in the slips to gain Carrick the wicket of Harvey Trump , and after Robinson had returned to account for Andrew Cottam , Carrick rounded off the innings by getting the stubborn Andrew Caddick caught at extra cover for 37 . |
| 11 | Simon Brown , also producing his best bowling of the tour , returned to have Mark Dekker caught at short leg by Gary Brown and Zimbabwe B were 57 for five . |
| 12 | I stopped at some lights on the East side . |
| 13 | When the train stopped at some town in Kent I got off . |
| 14 | The two then fenced at each other with their beaks , each parrying the other 's thrust . |
| 15 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 16 | These signals may have been less predictive of the outcome because they occurred at higher frequencies at earlier stages in the conflicts . |
| 17 | As a result , extensive leaching of ooids and bioclasts occurred in the vadose zone ( early leaching ) , and cementation occurred at deeper levels in the phreatic zone . |
| 18 | It was William and Hugh who led the foresters and verderers to search the houses of suspects for evidence and arrest offenders , and who presided at special inquests on Forest offences , and at the local Forest courts . |
| 19 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 20 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |
| 21 | Trained by Richard Hannon , Lemon Souffle has n't run since she scored at scintillating victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket in July . |
| 22 | She was too young , too soft and new , to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short , straight , smooth lines of her own experience . |
| 23 | Ordering a staff car , he drove at top speed through the night to Paris . |
| 24 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 25 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 26 | Bull and his colleague , Detective Constable Tim Wills , drove at high speed towards north Wales . |
| 27 | The announcement of the measures comes more than three months after publication of the Holman report , ordered following last August 's event , when several racing boats drove at high speed in fog-shrouded Torbay — two hitting a holiday beach . |
| 28 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 29 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 30 | But when Felicity arrived , three days later , it seemed at first glance as if she had lost every atom of her old charm . |