Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince glanced at a clock . |
| 2 | Shrilling overhead , the hurricane clawed at the leaf canopy of the rain forest , tearing great holes in it . |
| 3 | The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks . |
| 4 | So it was last Tuesday night , when the change allowed at the end of our whacky version of five-card rolling draw brought your correspondent the most beautiful five of spades he had ever seen — face down what 's more — to go with the A-2-3-4 he was showing . |
| 5 | These intermediate times show very clearly that all modes apart from the cycle had periods of fast or slow movement , whereas the bike continued at a consistent pace . |
| 6 | In January 1991 , the Board looked at the responses to this consultation and used the views of respondents to help shape our new Quality Framework and the development programme which will help to put it in place — the Quality Development Programme — QDP . |
| 7 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 8 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council were changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 9 | The burglary happened at the end of February when Darlington Borough Council was changing locks at 500 old people 's flats after spare keys went missing . |
| 10 | E. F. Loftus and Burns interpreted these results as retrograde amnesia produced by mental shock , and suggested that the impairment occurred at the time of storage of the memory . |
| 11 | A number of anecdotes relate the corruption , greed and ignorance of the ulema and the discontent felt at the introduction of the administrative practices of high Islam and especially its fiscal policy . |
| 12 | The case seemed at the time , and in retrospect , to be a win for IBM . |
| 13 | The clerk stared at a point above the priest 's head |
| 14 | The silt stayed at the bottom , however , and the bank remained porous . |
| 15 | I learned of their decision colleagues last night on television when the Chairman announced at the U D M Conference , who are not involved in this issue at all , that three thousand redundancies of management and clerical staff were going to be made . |
| 16 | The decision came at a time when 1,500,000 besieged refugees in the city of Asmara , the last government stronghold in Eritrea , faced imminent death by starvation . |
| 17 | The decision came at a meeting of the new 14-member Consultative Group on Indonesia in Paris on July 16-17 , chaired by the World Bank , set up after Indonesia dissolved a Netherlands-led aid forum in March in protest at alleged Netherlands interference in its internal affairs [ see p. 38868 ] . |
| 18 | The Archdeacon looked at the Inspector kindly , as at a son who has much to learn . |
| 19 | The statue stood at the centre of the Hall of Celestial Destinies in Nantes spaceport , the huge , bronze figures raised high above the executive-class travellers who bustled like ants about its base . |
| 20 | The yacht unveiled at the show was trimmed out in red-stained mahogany , although teak is an alternative . |
| 21 | The trail began at a street in Cardiff . |
| 22 | The all-women party was in full swing when the PC called at the Compass Inn at Cheltenham , Glos , where a strip-o-gram was expected . |
| 23 | The skin puckered at the side of his lips again , this time into a sneer rather than a smile , although with Swod Blanche found it difficult to tell the difference . |
| 24 | These boys , when tested , were found to have an average IQ of 80 , thus showing a significant degree of recovery from the level reached at the end of the first year . |
| 25 | The stick waggled at a great building nesting among its outhouses at the bottom of the village . |
| 26 | Daphne Rye got him the part , Binkie Beaumont was the producer , the play opened at the Lyric , Hammersmith , on April 8th , 1957 . |
| 27 | He returned to London with his wife on 2 September , and the London production of the play opened at the Cambridge Theatre three weeks later . |
| 28 | The play opened at the Queen 's Theatre at the end of November 1963 to less than rapturous applause . |
| 29 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 30 | The tragedy happened at a transport depot in the town . |