Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In defence he was steady and reliable even if , in a way , his sophisticated refined play was out of its element in the hurly-burly of 3rd Division South football ; Jimmy always appeared to be better suited to a more leisurely pace than that which usually pertained at Selhurst Park in the mid-1950s . |
| 2 | Furthermore , recurrences , which usually ran at ten to 20 per cent , dropped close to zero . |
| 3 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 4 | Wilkes and Cobbett wrote for a society which still shuddered at the memory of the puritans and their censors , the good people appointed by Cromwell to license and to regulate the press . |
| 5 | The incident occurred in mid-December and knocked several yards off the summit , which formerly stood at 12,349ft . |
| 6 | Padding across the shaggy lawn in her slippers , she was accompanied by a tortoise-shell cat which repeatedly darted at her pink pom-poms . |
| 7 | One of the by-products of contact with Europe was a boom in wine sales , which nearly doubled at home , and a long-overdue improvement in restaurant standards . |
| 8 | I 've been seriously caught out more than once on early ambitious trips — the ice axe which nearly stayed at home was worth its weight in gold . |
| 9 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 10 | Indeed , the movement for total abstinence from alcohol , which also flourished at this time in Protestant and puritan countries , illustrates this clearly . |
| 11 | That was how it had been , perhaps that was where it had started , thought Liz , as she stared into past and future , before jerking herself back into the present , which now stood at 20.22 . |
| 12 | She paid tribute to all who helped raise money for the appeal which now stood at £280,000 . |
| 13 | To get round the maggot queues , which often formed at Billy Clarke 's and John Arthur Broadhead 's on Button Lane , Ernest Jowitt 's on Fitzwilliam Street and Maurice Jackson 's on Asline Road , I used to take my empty Ostermilk tin to the Hide and Skin Company in Sheffield 's Pond Hill . |
| 14 | The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them . |
| 15 | Mr Stone was a committee member of a society which regularly met at a public house owned by a brewery and managed by their employee , Taffe . |
| 16 | Another sore point was de Gaulle 's fondness for theatricality and rhetoric , which sometimes came at the expense of substance . |
| 17 | km. ) of downland west of the Cuckmere , which then held at least 17 regularly-occupied sites . |
| 18 | It is to be presumed membership reached 200 as the entrance fee was re-imposed for the bond Redemption Fund which then stood at £35 11s. 1d. … enough to redeem 1 x £25 bond . |
| 19 | They now will have to wait for the 17.18 which previously ran at 17.08 or walk from Eaglescliffe . ’ |
| 20 | Mass arrests of UDA chiefs could start within hours of the government ban , which officially began at midnight . |