Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This went directly against Stirling 's concept of the role of his men , which had still not been clearly understood or even accepted at headquarters . |
| 2 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 3 | Jim Hind 's advice on planning calving dates raised points I 'd never considered and although obviously aimed at cattle , has made me rethink my goat mating . |
| 4 | The punch rate should be a lot higher than normally seen at heavyweight fights . |
| 5 | For those in search of the true state of this extraordinary art , there is no better guide than the massive , three-volume Handbook , written by the cream of the US artificial intelligentsia and skilfully edited at Ed Feigenbaum 's AI citadel at Stanford University . |
| 6 | I got wet thro ’ and was kindly and hospitably treated at Mrs. Fletcher 's sisters … ’ |
| 7 | Camera-gun recovered from a Dornier Do 17 and successfully sold at Christie 's August sale . |
| 8 | The Book was found buried in the ground almost three months later , and presumably remained at Kells until it was brought to Dublin and presented to Trinity College by Henry Jones , Bishop of Meath , some time after the year 1661 . |
| 9 | They get tired , frustrated , irritable and downright incensed at times . |
| 10 | The head of the deceased then appears on a television screen which is tastefully draped in white silk and discreetly illuminated at night . |
| 11 | He found it and obviously felt at ease enough to go ahead with the appointment , ’ said Mr King . |
| 12 | Redfern launched a circulating exhibition of recent graphic works at the beginning of the year , there has been a print survey at New York 's Museum of Modern Art , and now a collection of important and fragile pictures dating from the Fifties and Sixties , coordinated by the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona and already seen at IVAM in Valencia , has arrived at the Serpentine Gallery ( to 9 August ) . |
| 13 | His own Palladian compositions show a number of idiosyncrasies of detail , the only significant one being a frequent use of the pyramidal roof-form derived , inter alia , from Palladio 's Villa Emo and already repeated at Pembroke Lodge and Marble Hill ; but other elements are more noteworthy . |
| 14 | She was silent for a moment and just looked at me. " what have you got to say to explain that place , I should like to know ? |
| 15 | The passengers boarded another aircraft and finally landed at Faro airport yesterday afternoon , five hours behind schedule . |
| 16 | Ltd. , cycle manufacturers — as well as household names such as Raleigh , Singer , Swift , and above all the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company , bought by Hooley and M. D. Rucker in 1896 for £3 million and promptly floated at £5 million ( which was 80 per cent over-subscribed ) . |
| 17 | Ideal for popping in handbags and desk drawers and usually priced at 99p each , we have 100 sets of all three to give away . |
| 18 | Crucial to the conviction was evidence from Pederick , who had , at his own trial , admitted planting the bomb and further claimed at Anderson 's trial that he had done so on the latter 's instructions . |
| 19 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 20 | Bernard was ordained in Carlisle in 1968 and later served at Keswick Youth Centre and then at Barrow and Whitehaven . |
| 21 | These were the controversial paintings rejected by the jury of the Salon d'Automne and later exhibited at Kahnweiler 's gallery in the rue Vignon . |
| 22 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 23 | On the other hand heads have every right to expect staff to be well groomed and reasonably dressed at work . |
| 24 | There are two and a half million ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania and almost one million in Slovakia , both minorities being a result of the punishment and reward system adopted in the treaties of Versailles and Trianon and substantially confirmed at Yalta . |
| 25 | Unable to practise , he turned to teaching at Cheltenham School of Architecture close to the home he had designed and substantially built at Malvern , despite his affliction , and became deputy principal . |
| 26 | Capricorn Note , owned by Stuart Ray and now trained at Wimbledon by Arthur Hitch , races in a five-dog heat on Saturday and should qualify for the second round . |
| 27 | One exception was De Chirico 's ‘ Natura morta evangelica ’ ( Evangelical still life ) , shown by Malingue , sold by the Museum of Modern Art , New York at Sotheby 's in 1988 for $5.28 million and now priced at $7.5 million . |
| 28 | This sale of antiquities will be marked by a collection of Egyptian pieces acquired between 1920 and 1940 and now estimated at £2 million ( $3 million ) . |
| 29 | CO ON sock and frilly knicker specialist Sherwood Group ( steady at 760p and now capitalised at £140m ) is looking too big for the unlisted securities market and a move up to the main market may well accompany Tuesday 's year-end profits . |
| 30 | Yet in some parts of the United States , as in Texas , tens of thousands of rattlesnakes are rounded up , killed , skinned and often eaten at barbecues . |