Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | What yer doin' ? ’ one of the riggers shouted at him . |
| 2 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 3 | One of the giants grinned at him . |
| 4 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 5 | An auditing system would tell us something about the investigations looked at and , by way of extrapolation , also about the general reliability of the system . |
| 6 | Yes they 're more sophisticated , and what I 'm concerned about is whether we have the right back up to be able to sustain a war erm there at present the war is more like a blitzkrieg which the Germans used at the start of the second world war |
| 7 | They had not yet given their opinion to the present proposal — given outline permission by East Hampshire District council 's northern area planning sub-committee on March 24th — because the plans had at that stage only been submitted in outline . |
| 8 | Below , the prisoners sat at the far side of a rank of yellow-decked tables , with their little visitors — women , kids , the old — ranged opposite on kitchen chairs . |
| 9 | But most of the groups had at least two members who were able to rectify the situation . |
| 10 | ‘ As the rules stood at the time , the League had no choice but to order the game to be replayed over a full 90 minutes . |
| 11 | Purism was an exercise in reason and even the Dadaists arrived at their apparent absurdities by a process of rational thought . |
| 12 | The researchers looked at a sample of 302 people who had inherited a house . |
| 13 | The researchers looked at the amplitude of the brain-waves and the latency of the brain 's response to the stimulus . |
| 14 | The musicians glanced at him expectantly . |
| 15 | The animals shuddered at the word unpleasantness . |
| 16 | The structuralists looked at meaningful systems within their social context and analysed meaning as structured in a way analogous to language . |
| 17 | It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world . |
| 18 | The pyjamas fastened at last , Ashley rose shakily to her feet . |
| 19 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
| 20 | Virtually all the guards carried at least a side-arm and , usually , a semi-automatic rifle . |
| 21 | The Elms looked at them rather disapprovingly and then turned back to Tealtaoich . |
| 22 | When the authors looked at the proportion of the community experiencing vulnerability factors , important social class differences emerged . |
| 23 | The Norderns looked at Marx who stood before them as if he was quite happy to stand there in silence all day . |
| 24 | The majority of the islanders lived at subsistence level . |
| 25 | The Bosnians arrived at Wendlebury last weekend . |
| 26 | ‘ The boy and girl are with you , ’ the Trapper repeated like a man slow of thought , to whom the words had at last revealed their significance . |
| 27 | The words leapt at Rakovsky off the page . |
| 28 | The words implied at least one something else , if not more . |
| 29 | The Jews looked at the kingdom of Heaven in two different ways : |
| 30 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |