Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 2 | As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car . |
| 3 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 4 | Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay . |
| 5 | Our research looked at mental health services in three areas and how they were affected by the introduction of care programming . |
| 6 | What if an enemy appeared at this moment ? |
| 7 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 8 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 9 | A slim example of western luxury nestled at this moment in Anna 's vagina . |
| 10 | Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor . |
| 11 | Car engine rated at fifty horsepower |
| 12 | Twenty years was a long time to bear dependence if your spirit craved something stronger and your intelligence rebelled at continual submission to powers who neither , Anna felt , knew or cared how she and Peter lived . |
| 13 | The telephone rang at that moment ; Rachel answered it and before David had time to leave the room she said , ‘ There 's been an accident in the canteen — a boiler has blown up and two of the staff have been scalded . ’ |
| 14 | The ferry 's flag flew at half mast as the probe went on at Cork 's Ringaskiddy port . |
| 15 | The Home Affairs Select Committee report , when the Committee looked at sick leave , for example , found that some progress could be made in improving on the sick absence record of police officers . |
| 16 | To compile the report the NAO looked at 120 road construction contracts and found costs increased by more than 30pc in 28 of the schemes and by more than 50pc in five of them . |
| 17 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 18 | The motion asks the C E C to initiate a campaign aimed at changing legislation , giving workers the right to refuse to accept changes to previous agreed contracts . |
| 19 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 20 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 21 | INITIAL shock gave ground to more considered calm in the market after Mr Lamont 's forecast of a £50 billion public sector borrowing requirement had at one stage wiped 14 points off the FT-SE 100-Share Index . |
| 22 | Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ? |
| 23 | As the law stood at that time local authorities could place limits on the number of pupils in each of its schools , and the Secretary of State said that he had no power to intervene in the Dewsbury case . |
| 24 | As Duclaud-Williams ( 1978 ) suggests , the operation of rent rebates and other principles embodied in the Act tended at that time to swing the balance further in favour of home buyers and away from the two rented sectors . |
| 25 | In this assay , bacteria with higher surface hydrophobicity agglutinated at lower ammonium sulphate concentrations . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 27 | In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% — less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats , a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters . |
| 28 | No major Arab initiative materialized at this time , although the Yugoslav Foreign Minister on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement pursued ideas on lines similar to those explored in December by Algerian President Col. Chadli Bendjedid [ see p. 37927 ] . |
| 29 | Any love she had for her husband disappeared at that moment . |
| 30 | Her confidence grew at each visit . |