Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started my long walk , interspersed with running sessions to deliver the papers to Mr. Brooks , the Head Gardener at Godolphin School , who lived right at the bottom of Laverstock Road , a distance of almost a mile . |
| 2 | A year later he moved to Bury , and then in 1896 to Ganton , where he stayed until 1902 , when he became professional at the South Herts Club in Totteridge , north London . |
| 3 | All the dinosaurs , vegetarian and carnivore alike , became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period ( see p. 135 ) . |
| 4 | Indeed , so long was their duration on Earth that those species which became extinct at the end were quite unlike those evolving from the reptiles in the early Triassic . |
| 5 | Not until after the dinosaurs finally became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous did the mammals radiate explosively into a great diversity of forms such as we see today , to occupy an even wider range of ecological niches than those vacated by the dinosaurs . |
| 6 | Thomas Davidson became deaf at the age of four due to illness and was educated as a private pupil of Dr. Thomas Watson of the Old Kent Road Asylum . |
| 7 | Born in Taunton , Somerset to a wealthy coal merchant , he became deaf at the age of 5 due to illness . |
| 8 | Third in this trilogy of deaf men of remarkable achievements of this era who were mainly oralist but who respected those that used sign language was Abraham Farrar , born at Leeds , who became deaf at the age of 3 due to scarlet fever . |
| 9 | John W. McCandless was born in 1884 in Londonderry , the son of a Justice of the Peace , and became deaf at the age of 10 months through scarlet fever , and was sent to the Langside Institution at Glasgow , Scotland . |
| 10 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 11 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 12 | Mr Todd made clear at the weekend that he thought Mr Field was a bad loser , saying he appeared to think he was God 's gift to Birkenhead . |
| 13 | But as the Queen made clear at the Guildhall , if the family is to answer its critics it needs understanding from without as well as obedience from within . |
| 14 | Although it has been telling the world how successfully it has recovered , Unisys Corp made clear at the annual meeting last week just how parlous the company 's condition remains . |
| 15 | The Committee met weekly at the Thatch 'd House Tavern in St James 's Street and for that reason became known as The Thatched House Society . |
| 16 | Besides , he got embarrassed at the stares people gave Slater , even if Slater himself did n't seem to notice . |
| 17 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 18 | Horribly frightened by this time , for she could not believe that Susan would have gone out of the house , she ran into the kitchen , and stopped short at the sight of the familiar figure sitting crouched in front of the fire . |
| 19 | The new experience everyone enjoyed was eating bananas and it was a great disappointment when the supply stopped short at the beginning of the war . |
| 20 | Jennifer was about to reply but stopped short at the look on the other woman 's face . |
| 21 | He also described minute-taking at the final meeting as unfair . |
| 22 | Dot remembered how the bowl of each spoon at Mrs Parvis 's was stained a streaky brown , and bent crooked at the shaft , with NAAFI stamped on the handle . |
| 23 | There seemed a strange lack of conviction about the Ipswich display and three minutes before the interval there was another scare when Hendrie crossed from the right but Wilkinson headed wide at the far post . |
| 24 | He headed wide at the far post and then forced Reece to push his angled shot round a post . |
| 25 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 26 | Not unexpectedly , the residents of Chiswick became alarmed at the prospect , but the acquisition proceeded of the properties on the proposed route . |
| 27 | But Hartington soon became alarmed at the plans to give increased powers to what he termed ‘ fanatical local authorities ’ , and he wrote to Rosebery asking him to withdraw support for the measures . |
| 28 | Housing associations received a major boost from the Housing Act 1974 when a new once-and-for-all capital grant became payable at the outset of each scheme ( Baker 1976 ; Lansley 1979 ) . |
| 29 | It came alive at the touch of her delectable lips , and she could feel his zealous prong swelling inside her mouth . |
| 30 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |