Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the security forces mounted check points at every key road into Belfast , commuters soon became angry at the lengthy delays , and the cost was enormous . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They always got drunk at the Commercial Hotel when their shift was over . |
| 5 | She always felt sad at the end of the run . |
| 6 | He also described minute-taking at the final meeting as unfair . |
| 7 | The heroes of the hour were left-hander David Byas and Craig White , who both came good at the same time to record their career-best Sunday scores . |
| 8 | It also proved difficult at the start of NEP to gear local manufacturing industries to peasant demands . |
| 9 | In such a circumstance a quantity rule has to be adopted in order to determine what actual output will be , and the one which we adopted was that actual output would equal the level of demand , thus obliging firms to produce and sell more than they initially considered optimal at the price set . |
| 10 | Mr Lilley never looked happy at the Department of Trade and Industry , where his non-interventionist views seemed out of tune with a deepening recession which was laying waste many of the businesses created in the boom years of 1980s . |
| 11 | I recently sang live at the Asian Pop Awards ceremony and I got a real buzz realising I was before my own people . |