Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 2 | I flew down and looked at the computer screens to see what was written on them , and they all said in huge letters … |
| 3 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 4 | But Moose have got steadily better as they 've gone along and arrived at a winsome pop style not a million miles from Lloyd Cole . |
| 5 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 6 | For all of these day-rate jobs a time book was kept and wages were reckoned up and paid at the end of the month . |
| 7 | They took the escalator up and settled at a table overlooking the fountain . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose the humans or whatever knew they would be coming back , and I 've been up and looked at the controls and , you know , it 's probably easier than the truck was , only of course there 's these extra levers for the hydraulics , but that should n't be a problem if there 's enough fuel , which … ’ |
| 9 | All these readings were taken back and analysed at a fully equipped laboratory in Taunton . |
| 10 | Carey swung the rod out for a cast , and Ellwood tore it from his grip , then stepped back and lashed at the priest , holding the rod two-handed , bellowing with outrage . |
| 11 | Her long hair , shining gold , was swept back and caught at the nape of her neck with a bow , make-up , expertly applied , accentuated the classically beautiful lines of her face , and she wore her well-cut suit with all the panache that was expected of her . |
| 12 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 13 | We 've gone back and looked at the correspondence we 've had about the News Network . |