Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 2 | She first offered monarchs to four ‘ experimental ’ birds and viceroys to four ‘ control ’ birds ; she recorded how many times the birds avoided the butterflies or pecked at them . |
| 3 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded whether they avoided or pecked at them . |
| 4 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded the number of trials in which they avoided the butterflies or pecked at them ; the numbers in the Table give her results . |
| 5 | Thus , a situation had arisen in which the goings on at Roscarrock Hall were ignored or winked at , and the family was left alone by the Justice of the Peace on the understanding that the fines were paid on time . |
| 6 | The subsequent reconciliation of the bourgeoisie to " the coming of democracy " owed much to the fact that these fears ( or hopes ) were not realized , or realized at best only in part . |
| 7 | One of the intriguing features of his account is that he seems to have heard or read at least one quotation in Greek from the Pentateuch . |
| 8 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 9 | This is unfortunate as these implied terms are a very useful weapon for the buyer and , in the case of consumer sales , the implied terms can not be excluded or modified at all . |
| 10 | This liability , under Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , can not be limited or excluded at all — see paragraphs 9–6 to 9–14 above . |
| 11 | For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’ |
| 12 | Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most convincing illustration of the power of the monarchical idea and the extent to which it was still unchallenged is the way in which almost everywhere opposition to rulers , insofar as it was formed or organized at all , tended to centre around the heir to the throne or at least some member of the royal family and to use him as a figurehead . |
| 14 | Domesticated buffaloes lumbered through the flooded fields , too , hauling tiny wooden plows , or wallowed at rest in deeper hollows with only their scimitar-shaped horns and noses showing above the water . |
| 15 | So he gets disciplined or yelled at or fired . |
| 16 | Slaves , as property , were under the absolute power of their owners ; they could be bought , sold or traded at the whim of the master , and were occasionally awarded as prizes in lotteries , or wagered at gaming tables . |
| 17 | Whereas er in erm a factory , I believe , they would have had to have er the rooms whitewashed , colourwashed or whitewashed at certain times , we were n't bound up with any regulations , then . |
| 18 | Eva spoke or sang at all three funerals . |
| 19 | Almost all the media coverage would be about her and Charles , how far apart they stood , whether they spoke or looked at each other . |
| 20 | None of the family spoke or looked at the others . |
| 21 | None of them moved or looked at me . |
| 22 | Now and then he got hold of a book , or looked at some prints , or chatted with a local worthy , but it was a hard life and they were in narrow circumstances . |
| 23 | If I talked too much at first or laughed at something , it broke the spell and everyone would start talking to me . |
| 24 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 25 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 26 | In May 1990 the privatization of 28 heavily indebted industrial companies was announced ; another 21 would be liquidated and 200 industrial companies controlled by Greek banks would be sold or liquidated at the next stage of privatization . |
| 27 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 28 | Meals were enlivened by readings or poetry recited or chanted at Charles ' command . |
| 29 | Only cynics would have called him stick-in-the-mud or sneered at him being ‘ worthy ’ . |
| 30 | I think explaining things to people in lay terms is an incredibly difficult thing to do , highly skilled thing to do , and should not be diminished or sneered at . |