Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployed stood at street corners , dejected . |
| 2 | In mid-1955 the foreign ministers of the Six met at Messina in Italy to launch ‘ a fresh advance towards the building of Europe ’ and to create a market ‘ free from all customs duties and all quantitative restrictions ’ . |
| 3 | Not that most of the 2,000 expected at Tabard 's Hertfordshire field will have any choice — the club does not possess a stand . |
| 4 | Sick with fear , she watched helplessly as , at a shouted signal , the three rushed at fitzAlan in a concerted attack that looked like succeeding through sheer weight of numbers . |
| 5 | Mobs burned tyres in the streets , and the prudent stayed at home while soldiers drove around firing their weapons . |
| 6 | It is evident that although studies up until the 1970s looked at youth in terms of class divisions , it is now also important to bring in unemployment , gender and race as further dimensions of disadvantage — dimensions which affect young people in particular ways . |
| 7 | The Anti-Rex glared at Bill . |
| 8 | However , the most distinctive part was not the chalk uplands but the little Thames-side hundred of Stoke , lying on the richest soil and closest to London , where little short of half the aggregate wealth belonged to just a dozen men — 2½ per cent of the listed inhabitants — rated at £40 and upwards , indeed practically one-third belonged to the five rated at £100 or more . |
| 9 | The same happened at Canterbury , but on a much greater scale . |
| 10 | But Morse was consulting the Paddington-Oxford timetable which Lewis had picked up for him from Reception , and was nodding to himself as he noted that the 13.30 arrived at Oxford 14.57 , just as Kemp had claimed . |
| 11 | The oriental glanced at Grant 's bandaged arm and shrugged . |
| 12 | The two coincided at intervals of 1460 ( = 365 × 4 ) years . |
| 13 | The seneschal looked at Quiss and said , " Unfortunately there are not only your feelings to be taken into account . |
| 14 | They have to do with programming : French culture and communications ministers in the 1980S protested at US cultural imperialism -thus , over five years , during prime-time viewing , French-made programmes were allegedly down by 30 percent and American-made programmes up by 60 percent ; France is battling to win ‘ la guerre des images ’ — star wars waged via the TV set . |
| 15 | And as a bonus , IRAS should be able to send back information for at least nine months , instead of the seven expected at launch . |