Example sentences of "and [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was admitted , now , to the feasting-hall of the King , and placed at the long women 's table presided over by Marietta of Patras , the King 's serene and excellent mother . |
| 2 | He 'd worked and taught at the Magic Theater in San Francisco ; had therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur with Fritz Perls ; worked in New York with Chaikin and La Mama . |
| 3 | Christina followed and stopped at the front door . |
| 4 | He was really a very likeable lad , though a bit mysterious and withdrawn at the deepest level . |
| 5 | We are both exalted and fallen at the same time : sinful and yet given unique status in the universe of things . |
| 6 | These writings appealed essentially to a generation of students bored with academic life and attracted by the street credibility of the Situationists , and often provided students with the dubious pleasure of being flattered and insulted at the same time . |
| 7 | Liddell graduated from Edinburgh University a few days later ( 17 July ) , and enrolled at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh to read divinity for a year , for he had long since decided to devote his life to missionary work , like his parents . |
| 8 | It enables users to create and maintain dynamic data models that are defined and manipulated at the highest level , by category . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Providing loans without interest , the People 's Bank is a grassroots financial institution owned by the Government and targeted at the poorest Nigerians who live below the poverty line . |
| 11 | J. H. Newsom ( later Sir John ) was born in 1910 and educated at the Imperial Services College and Queen 's College , Oxford . |
| 12 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 13 | The letter said that collegiality was novel , unfounded , unscriptural , ‘ not even solidly probable ’ , and hinted at the powerful influence of ‘ non-doctrinal forces , whose aims and methods are not beyond reproach ’ ( by which they meant that the press was distorting the event by presenting it in terms of heroes and villains ) . |
| 14 | Inmos Ltd finally launched the long-delayed T9000 Transputer on Friday and hinted at the next generation ‘ Chameleon ’ technology . |
| 15 | Inmos Ltd has finally launched the long-delayed T9000 Transputer and hinted at the next generation ‘ Chameleon ’ technology . |
| 16 | Any necessary elections for tax purposes must be identified and made at the optimum times . |
| 17 | At the end of each row was the monitor who marked the attendance which , if regular , entitled you to a Prize at the end of the year , a book chosen from a list by the recipient and presented at the Annual Service on Low Sunday . |
| 18 | Optionally , fragments could be transcytosed across the enterocyte and presented at the basolateral membrane for immunocompetent cells , maybe initiating a pathological response in coeliac patients . |
| 19 | The next job is to position the internal electrical appliances , with one Fluval in each corner , the Spray-bar fitted to the Fluval 3 and positioned at the top back of the aquarium , just under the covers . |
| 20 | Mrs Campbell , who was 47 , had been sexually assaulted and strangled at the All Travellers Quest Guest House last week . |
| 21 | Thomson was born in Bangalore , India , in 1894 and was educated at the Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate , in England before he went to study art at the London Art School , Kensington , and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1920 . |
| 22 | During this period he also studied painting under Charles Lucy [ q.v. ] in London and Paris , and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1849 , 1850 , and 1851 . |
| 23 | She had a studio in Reigate and exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists . |
| 24 | These latter creations will be recognisable to a London audience from ‘ Three Worlds ’ , the exhibition of Clemente 's works on paper which was organised by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and seen at the Royal Academy last summer . |
| 25 | It is useful , when several people have to get together to collaborate on an activity , to make one of them responsible for seeing that this is done and done at the right time . |
| 26 | The cabby made a squealing noise and clutched at the ragged edges of the wound as if trying to hold it together , to prevent the blood pouring through his hands . |
| 27 | I was amused and relieved at the easily-remedied cause of the blockage : cased caddis larvae . |
| 28 | These procedures thus allow errors to be established and corrected at the earliest possible time . |
| 29 | He unsheathed his sword and grimaced at the blue steel . |
| 30 | With one hand he pushed the boy away from him , and with the other he tore off his horned hood and hauled at the tight collar of his scaly costume . |