Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the 1987 Vienna OPEC conference approached , there was further talk of a price increase , although the mainstream preference was for waiting until demand stood at a level capable of sustaining one . |
| 2 | If information arrived at a constant rate in calendar time , the approaches using calendar time and event time would be identical . |
| 3 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 4 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 5 | Mum was the word in Bournemouth as work proceeded at a feverish pitch on a stunning new exhibition at the ExpoCentre . |
| 6 | When work ceased at an industrial estate near Liverpool ( within daily travelling distance of Leyland ) , Mr Stevenson was offered work at a number of other sites : Northumberland , Anglesey and Manchester . |
| 7 | HE was the butt of jokes as England flopped at the European Championship . |
| 8 | Christina arranged dinner with Celia , then picked some mimosa and bright-lavender periwinkle flowers for the dining-table , which she was arranging when Stephen appeared at the french windows of the dining-room , looming out of the lengthening shadows as dusk turned quickly into night . |
| 9 | As delegates arrived at the Grand Kremlin Palace , hundreds of pro and anti-Yeltsin demonstrators rallied on Red Square . |
| 10 | When officers arrived at the High Row , a large group of anti-fascist campaigners had arrived and were chanting slogans at the BNP . |
| 11 | In a second , as Suzanne looked at the seated pair , Franca realised something . |
| 12 | Just as Jos glanced at the incessant downpour and said . |
| 13 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 14 | Yesterday , the couple were apart as Diana lunched at the Brazilian embassy , with her close friend Lucia Flecha de Lima , wife of the ambassador to London . |
| 15 | At L.A. County , Rusty built the profile of the museum through big exhibitions … just as Carter did at the National Gallery ’ . |
| 16 | When Thornton started at the Daily Mirror he found the usual chronic Fleet Street over-staffing , and began to swing the axe to enable the paper to stand on its own two feet and ward off the inevitable predators , such as Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell . |