Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference . |
| 2 | Her eyes gazed at the yellow light on the ceiling . |
| 3 | Yuan 's eyes flickered at the vocative title ‘ sei-sen ’ — ‘ sword bearer ’ . |
| 4 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her eyes flared at the stinging insult , only too aware that he outstripped her professionally . |
| 7 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 8 | Rostov 's lips twitched at the new interpretation of his son 's name . |
| 9 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 10 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 11 | SCOTTISH fencers excelled at the British Age Group Championships , Croydon . |
| 12 | EURO DISNEYLAND , a little bit of America in the flat farmlands of Seine-et-Marne to the east of Paris , opened an hour earlier than planned yesterday as thousands of visitors arrived at the Enchanted Kingdom . |
| 13 | DNA was isolated from the reaction mixtures and checked for its susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonuclease Eco RII , which fails to cleave CC A / T GG sites methylated at the inner cytosine residue . |
| 14 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 15 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
| 16 | Nine panels exploded at the Scottish Exhibition Centre , Glasgow . |
| 17 | Hoping to find important documents , the special ‘ capture group ’ of the Moscow and Russian departments of the ministry of internal affairs arrived at the central committee buildings at 4pm and ordered all workers to quit the buildings without briefcases within an hour , leaving their doors and safes open . |
| 18 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 19 | We will never know how that would develop because community charge has been abolished but anyway You will note of course as well that last year in nineteen ninety one , the Conservative Party managers looked at the local election result and decided not to go in June ninety one , cos they figured they would get beaten . |
| 20 | Matchsticks bawled at the hysterical woman and began slopping contents from the petrol can over the front of her dressing gown . |
| 21 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |
| 22 | Wolski shuddered at the grim scene , made worse by this normally peaceful African tawny eagle being angry and stressed over nothing he could see . |
| 23 | Subsequently , an apparently very different kind of proarrhythmic response occurred : patients died at a constant rate during the 10-month treatment period with flecainide and encainide , and the mortality paralleled the number of observed ischaemic episodes . |
| 24 | Of the remaining 12 patients one died of acute renal failure during the initial investigation and treatment and the remaining 11 patients died at a median period of four months ( range one to 18 months ) because of progressive cahexia . |
| 25 | Prices rose at an annual rate of 4% last month , up from 3.8% in April and their quickest pace of increase since March last year . |
| 26 | Deviations from ancient routes appeared at an early date . |
| 27 | Speaking in tongues , as the disciples did at the original Pentecost , is said to be commonplace . |
| 28 | The the horse-drawn lorries going to the different curing stations where the gutter girls stood at the far end dressed in their oilskin aprons ready to start the day 's work . |
| 29 | The two friends stayed at the Tuscan Villa because the music room had two Bechstein grands and the couple were working on duets . |
| 30 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |