Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 2 | The costs and benefits of the scheme are being looked at closely by the regional flood defence committee and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 3 | The Environment Committee had it 's last last meeting by a majority vote , made a decision that the proposed reductions in service for the Fire Service sh er er should not be gone ahead with and that and that issues around the should be looked at again at the . |
| 4 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
| 5 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 6 | It was answered at once in the basement . |
| 7 | The Missa Papae Marcelli of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( C. 1525–1594 ) , then master of the chapel at St. Maria Maggiore at Rome , may well date from this time and have been accepted at once as an embodiment of the Tridentine ideal but there is no evidence that it was the unique exemplar of the legend . |
| 8 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | But one practical contribution could be made at once by the IBA and the Governors of the BBC . |
| 10 | Both the problem and the interest of the sociology of culture can be seen at once in the difficulty of its apparently defining term : ‘ culture ’ . |
| 11 | To flush some out it is occasionally necessary to put a copy of the authority in a sealed envelope and insist it be conveyed at once to the chief executive . |
| 12 | Redpath had acted at once on the very slenderest of chances — apart from the date , and the fact that Stavanger was missing , there was n't a scrap of evidence to link him with the body found on the Thames foreshore at low tide . |
| 13 | It might have been the stories about the blood pressure of inebriate volunteers being measured at 3am in the morning . |
| 14 | He swerved without warning to avoid a peaceable bicycle and was hooted at violently by an approaching car . |
| 15 | It was opened at once by the Town Clerk . |
| 16 | Now in in the bakery at that time it was one of the most progressive bakeries in the city and it must have employed at least about a hundred bakers . |
| 17 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 18 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 19 | Salata was arrested at 12.05am outside the development of luxury homes , centred on a polo club , after reports from security guards that he had been repeatedly coming to the south gate . |
| 20 | What is more , information on the product included in the packaging ‘ must be precise and comprehensible , ( and ) must be provided at least in the official language(s) of the Member States of destination . ’ |
| 21 | Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town . |
| 22 | In India , where continued hegemony was now the consideration paramount above all others in the minds of British politicians , a wholehearted attempt at such a policy , by one so well qualified to pursue it , must have seemed at least worth a try . |
| 23 | The pit-bull terrier was found at 5am in the Hilltop Garage on the Dean and Chapter Industrial Estate . |
| 24 | Gilbert , who had lost both of his previous encounters and was also reputed to have damaged a locker room wall after one of those defeats , was said to have woken at 4am on the morning of the singles feeling nauseous . |
| 25 | Followed at once by a young man , dark-haired , sunburnt , wearing jeans and a T-shirt . |
| 26 | Given that precedent , the institution by Thomas Attwood , a banker , of the Birmingham Political Union of the Lower and Middle Classes , to be followed at once by the creation all over the country of other political unions , must have seemed ominous . |
| 27 | This is followed at 1.15pm with the Mobil 1 Superbike race , the Regal 600 race at 2.30pm , and the concurrently run Iwak ( UK ) 400 Supersport O'Kane Haulage 125 race at 3.30pm . |
| 28 | Even if sympathy was n't forthcoming , she had hoped at least for a little guidance , some clue as to where she had fallen short , or advice for the future . |
| 29 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 30 | Eight rows of dots are printed at once by a single horizontal move of the print head across the paper . |