Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worldwide underwriting losses in Q3 down from $131m to $124.9m — despite losses on Hurricane Andrew' — produced deficit at the nine months down $71.4m from $419.9m ( representing 17.2% of premiums ) to $348.5m ( 13.3% of premiums ) . |
| 2 | The Orc army made camp at the Three Towers , the ancient Elf ruins on the borders of the Moot . |
| 3 | After a period of unemployment in 1919 he found work at the government-run Slough Transport Depot where he became chairman of the shop stewards ' committee , organizing strikes and demonstrations against its eventual closure in April 1920 . |
| 4 | When the German officer began to shout abuse at the Poles , this goat leant out of his window and shouted abuse at the German officer . |
| 5 | County were beaten 3–1 , but the omens did not look favourable when the Town 's mascot , a stuffed donkey , caught fire at the post-match celebration . |
| 6 | A former Armed Forces Minister , Maj. Umaru Djalo , who had served under President Luis de Almeida Cabral , who had been overthrown in 1980 by the coup bringing President Joao Bernardo Vieira to power , sought asylum at the same time . |
| 7 | Paul Davies , 19 , admitted manslaughter at the Old Bailey in February . |
| 8 | Yanto recalled talk at the Blue Boar about recent good runs of fish and was full of anticipation as he carefully picked his way across one of the rock bridges . |
| 9 | Then I went over to the vice-president 's mansion and played tennis at the naval observatory in Washington a bunch of times . |
| 10 | A group of tattered watermen muttered abuse at the frozen river and cursed the great frost which had taken their livelihood from them . |
| 11 | But his comments caused outrage at the Civic Theatre where the director , Mr Bryan Goddard , took the unprecedented step of taking out an advert to counter the claims . |
| 12 | Jeanne Hébuterne studied art at the Academi Colarossi and the École des Arts Décoratifs where she met the sculptor , Chana Orloff , who claimed to have introduced Modigliani to Jeanne . |
| 13 | Lydia Lopokova ( 1891-1981 ) studied ballet at the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg , joined the Diaghilev Company in 1910 and remained with it until it was disbanded in 1929 . |
| 14 | With Minton 's help he obtained work at the Royal College as an artist 's model until he decided to return home where his future was secured for him through marriage and the management of a pub . |
| 15 | They cheered , and threw bread at the haggard Frenchman . |
| 16 | If you died with assets worth more than 140,000 in 1991/2 you paid tax at the full rate . |
| 17 | Methodist leaders sought the meeting with Mrs Thatcher after a resolution passed at the Methodist Conference in June last year , which declared outrage at the divisive effects of government policy . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly influential Americans again showed impatience at the apparent inability of Britain to recover from the war . |
| 19 | Of course that 's if you exchanged money at the regular exchange rate of 12 lei to the pound . |
| 20 | The Leader of the House , G V Wright , expressed revulsion at the shocking act of IRA terrorism . |
| 21 | Some opponents of the regime expressed scepticism at the proposed reforms and the adoption of liberalism , apparently at the expense of the long-held official ideology of " Mobutism " under which the President embodied the party and the state . |
| 22 | The rest of the traders , however , again expressed shock/horror at the very idea and were usefully sententious with it . |
| 23 | By contrast , in the post-Copernican universe , man looked outward on the night sky and , if he was Pascal , expressed terror at the eternal silence of infinite space . |
| 24 | At the same time he expressed frustration at the Japanese linkage between politics and economics . |
| 25 | Maxime Ferrari , chair of the opposition exile group Rally of the Seychelles People for Democracy , expressed concern at the slow pace of the proposed reform process . |
| 26 | The group expressed concern at the distorted presentation of issues by the mass media , and urged churches to develop closer dialogue with the media and press for fair reporting and a greater sense of social responsibility . |
| 27 | The UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed concern at the constitutional implications of the judgment but pointed out that it was left to UK courts to decide whether to exercise the powers . |
| 28 | While the Romantic artists challenged materialism at the emotional level , the exponents of Naturphilosophie argued that the material world was merely a projection of a deeper , spiritual reality . |
| 29 | Carol broke wind at the other end this time . |
| 30 | who handled scenery at the Old Vic — |