Example sentences of "[vb past] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Shouting and laughing , the family disembarked at a broken-down council estate covered in rubbish . |
2 | It was as if the sight of the man prodded at a dead spot within him , where no response would come . |
3 | TWO Argentinian airmen who fought in the Falklands died yesterday when their plane crashed at a British airport . |
4 | Smiling , she wondered whether he ever moved at a normal pace . |
5 | It was impossible to hurry but they moved at a steady pace , pausing seldom . |
6 | One behind the other , Grant leading , they moved at a fast walk . |
7 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
8 | At a little after one of the sunny afternoon clock they stopped at a vast motorway services area thingy . |
9 | On arrival at a solitary farm we stopped at a simple stone monument which marked the nearby crash-sites for F/L Mackid 's Lancaster , : 7572 ‘ L ’ and F/L Poole 's Halifax , W1020 ‘ K ’ . |
10 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
11 | Six hours into the journey , and several thousand feet higher , we stopped at a small village to quench our thirst and refuel the jeep from rusty milk-cans . |
12 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
13 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
14 | Some while later they stopped at a large setting loom , manned by five men ‘ beating up ’ , as Natasha explained , the chenille fur . |
15 | They stopped at a red light . |
16 | They stopped at a red light . |
17 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
18 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
19 | He stopped at a little roadside inn and found inside an old woman at work with a spinning wheel , like ‘ a dark silhouette out of a fairy tale ’ , and beyond her , through the window , the clear sky and a path through the delicate green , and geese pecking in the grass . |
20 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
21 | But all that changed at a phenomenal pace . |
22 | And er I used to go myself quite a lot er when there were well when there were more than one coming up I 've seen me go into , down in the pullman train from here to er , well we had about five changes I think , fat father had it all marked out so as you changed at a certain place . |
23 | During the mela a slight outbreak of cholera occurred at a small station called Manickpore on the Jubbulpore line . |
24 | The first major accident in an American nuclear reactor occurred at a small prototype military plant in Idaho in 1961 . |
25 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
26 | Also , the amalgamation of unions which occurred at a rapid pace throughout the inter-war years greatly improved the organization and effectiveness of the trade union movement as the years progressed . |
27 | One notable effect the alternative social format contained lay in the assault upon the senses which occurred at a pragmatic level . |
28 | Chaovalit 's formal entry into Thai party politics occurred at a difficult time for Chatichai and his government , already under pressure as a result of an outbreak of serious Cabinet infighting in late September . |
29 | She dabbed at a watery eye . |
30 | They ate at a round mahogany table with a stiff white cloth in a dining-room containing much heavy furniture . |