Example sentences of "and [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 2 | But he just stood still and gazed at some withered autumn flowers . |
| 3 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 4 | Embryos are finally transferred into drops of M 16 + BSA ( -50 u1 ) under paraffin oil in plastic Petri dishes , and incubated at 37 -C in an atmosphere of 5% C02 in air . |
| 5 | The Secretary shall minute the proceedings of each meeting such minutes to be produced , and read and passed at each sederunt . |
| 6 | A motion was proposed and passed at that meeting , which set out general suggestions concerning a possible way forward . |
| 7 | Even where workers moved away from their villages for good , most maintained contact with their places of origin and visited at regular intervals . |
| 8 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |
| 9 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 10 | Obviously one wants a language which enables this without demanding a lot of effort merely to be learnt and used at all . |
| 11 | After his appointment in 1631 as Chief Justice of the southern forests , the Earl of Holland took over the direction of the Forest Eyre , and presided at subsequent justice Seats . |
| 12 | July 19 : Cessna 180J N9962N unable to climb out of canyon and crashed at New Castle , Wyoming . |
| 13 | The settled particles are recovered in 10-20 ml and resuspended at 10 mg/ml in 4 M guanidine thiocyanate ( Sigma G-6639 ) , 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.0 , 20 mM EDTA ( assuming no significant loss of material during the size fractionation step ) . |
| 14 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 15 | It was sent to her home and came at last to her family . |
| 16 | He was pale and composed at first , his features rigidly set . |
| 17 | One man was outside , two were sitting inside , the men were completely black , so black trousers , black hats and they had a black cape over it , over their faces so you could n't see who they were , and one of them just had this gun in his hand , and fired at this Citroen here located . |
| 18 | Clive Ponting qualifies his own claims concerning American leverage by acknowledging that Wilson was wholly opposed to devaluation , and differed at most from the Americans over the details of the British role East of Suez . |
| 19 | And frowned at each other , as ill-coordinated a double-act as Fanny and Johnny Cradock : it was hard to tell which one found the other most irritating . |
| 20 | This was appealing to everyone 's better instincts and most of the giants looked alert and nodded at one another , because , of course , the Gruagach were known the length and breadth of Ireland for their culture and learning . |
| 21 | In patients with heart failure , catecholamine concentrations are increased at rest and at low levels of exercise , and attenuated at maximum exercise . |
| 22 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 23 | Marshalling began on 1 June , and then they embarked at Southsea and arrived at 19–00 hours , 6 June ( 'D' Day ) on the Normandy Coast at Le-Breche . |
| 24 | The book of the Gospels is laid on the shoulders of the newly chosen bishop , and opened at random , and a finger laid on the page — ’ |
| 25 | The USSR 's essential military needs are met by a network of bilateral treaties entered into years before the founding of the WTO : treaties which have been supplemented by similar agreements between the individual East European countries and renewed at periodic intervals over the years . |
| 26 | He had paid special attention to the hammerers ; they were all decorated with various kinds of facial hair ranging from pencil thin , Ronald Coleman moustaches to curly , Ancient Assyrian style full sets of ringlets , and their diminutive , painted jackets were striped , starred , arrowed and dotted at random . |
| 27 | The poem , addressed in its final form to Charles Lamb , followed his friends in imagination as they walked first ‘ along the hill-top edge ’ , then descended to the waterfall in the ‘ roaring dell ’ at Holford , and climbed at last high into the Quantocks , from where they looked out upon ‘ the many-steepled tract magnificent ’ of the coastal plain . |
| 28 | They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left , only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity . |
| 29 | Starting at the airman 's feet he moved up and raved at each disaster until he came to his head . |
| 30 | They started their break at one o'clock and finished at two . |