Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday 31 April 700 Lisbon soldiers disembarked at Caniçal and , aided by fog , took the town of Machico and forced the rebels into the hills to the west . |
| 2 | Under harder acceleration it intrudes , finishing up as a deep , rough-edged sounding beat at full throttle . |
| 3 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 4 | It is also clear that the prices of different commodities rose at varying rates and at different times . |
| 5 | Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world . |
| 6 | July 19 : Cessna 180J N9962N unable to climb out of canyon and crashed at New Castle , Wyoming . |
| 7 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 8 | Eleven and a half million people voted , the overwhelming majority in favour of collective security , although three million of those who supported economic sanctions against an aggressor jibbed at military ones . |
| 9 | Like a fork bent at right angles . |
| 10 | More like a pitch fork bent at right angles then ? |
| 11 | But bent at right angles . |
| 12 | The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted . |
| 13 | My understanding is that the European parliament has got so many buildings now including a great new building at Brussels built at huge cost , enormous cost and a new building they want to build at Strasbourg . |
| 14 | They rehearsed at New Cross Stadium and had to get a suntan to look fit . |
| 15 | Henderson returned to have both Rennie and Peall caught at long leg , leaving Durham with 19 overs ' batting to the close . |
| 16 | Byas held on to his third catch in the slips to gain Carrick the wicket of Harvey Trump , and after Robinson had returned to account for Andrew Cottam , Carrick rounded off the innings by getting the stubborn Andrew Caddick caught at extra cover for 37 . |
| 17 | Simon Brown , also producing his best bowling of the tour , returned to have Mark Dekker caught at short leg by Gary Brown and Zimbabwe B were 57 for five . |
| 18 | The tranquil white-washed villages were a welcome relief and they stopped at small bars and quenched their thirst with local wine and spring water . |
| 19 | He was about to catch a taxi home from Swindon town centre at just after midnight , when he stopped at public toilets . |
| 20 | We set off , stopped at random , pottered around , changed our plans , and got the first crossing from a port we had n't arrived at . |
| 21 | He excelled at grumpy anti-social males , harassed mothers , and their stony-faced domestic servants . |
| 22 | A row of 43 found at Old Erringham ( Sussex ) was 1.5 m long ; experiments have shown that 0.5 m of warp thread would require 14 loom-weights ; 1.5 m would therefore require 42 . |
| 23 | Its lights flickered at random and it made odd beeping noises . |
| 24 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 25 | But , especially , they show that whenever a siege occurred at neighbouring villages invariably suffered a s a result of heavy billeting , garrisoning , or even the mustering of armies on their greens and in their fields . |
| 26 | In contrast , macerated stillbirths were underrepresented in the stillbirths that occurred at general practitioner units while deaths due to asphyxia in labour were overrepresented . |
| 27 | Most accidents in the last year occurred at private or er family parties as opposed to larger displays . |
| 28 | It would be naive to expect every fragment surveyed to fall neatly into a pattern in which terraces occurred at certain heights and were completely absent from the other heights . |
| 29 | They did not seem to follow any particular pattern , but occurred at random and with varying intensity . |
| 30 | Incidents occurred at nuclear power stations in Spain and Lithuania during February . |