Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 2 | Opinion polls in August had shown 55 per cent support for the party , the highest level since its foundation in 1947 , and its membership stood at a record 5,400,000 members , or some 7 per cent of the adult population . |
| 3 | TWO Argentinian airmen who fought in the Falklands died yesterday when their plane crashed at a British airport . |
| 4 | Harry Tisch , 63 , the former East German trade union ( FDGB ) leader [ see pp. 37826 ; 37024 ] , became the first former East German leader to face trial when his case opened at a Berlin court on Jan. 29 . |
| 5 | A tear slowly rolled down his grandfather 's face , but still his eyes gazed at a point miles and miles away . |
| 6 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |
| 7 | ( Luke : Luke records that all his friends stood at a distance , including the women who had followed him from Galilee ( Luke 8:3 ) . ) |
| 8 | His death came at a time when the movement was split over whether to join in the negotiations or to maintain its principles and risk being marginalized . |