Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | We found some superb powder — all to ourselves , until we stopped at another excellent mountain restaurant at Le Prariond . |
| 9 | He excelled at grumpy anti-social males , harassed mothers , and their stony-faced domestic servants . |
| 10 | Er and we found at that earlier stage , they acted largely independently . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | It ran in MkII guise from 1954 to 1955 , but its six wins all came at insignificant domestic races . |
| 16 | [ 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 . |
| 17 | I was in hospital when the desperately hoped-for call came at 10.30 one Monday night . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The attack happened at this pyschiatric unit at Torquay in Devon . |
| 21 | That is what happened at both Imperial Typewriters in Leicester and at Mansfield Hosiery in Loughborough . |
| 22 | These forces intersected at that crucial site for modern ideology , the family , which they both helped to build and sustain . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Paige frowned at this new tack . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Did n't trip over your car in the car park when I arrived at seven this morning . ’ |
| 30 | The Lab found properly locked when the Assistant Police Liaison Officer and the young C.O. arrived at eight-thirty this morning . |