Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |
| 2 | Your child has just appeared at a Children 's Hearing and the members of the Panel have decided that your child should be placed on supervision to a social worker and that he/she should live away from home for a time . |
| 3 | He has already hinted at a price of around $375m . |
| 4 | Hyundai 's S-Coupe has always come at a bargain price — but until now it lacked the performance to match its sporty looks . |
| 5 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 6 | Highly gregarious in winter , flocks appearing tightly packed at a distance , feeding with their heads well down . |
| 7 | Indeed , we 'd often hooted at a poster of a diminutive Den , aged six , which bore the words : ‘ He 's six , he sings , he syncopates . ’ |
| 8 | A flexible mix of windsurfing , dinghy and catamaran sailing conveniently based at a family run hotel with half board . |
| 9 | you do n't christened at a baptist church |
| 10 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 11 | It had all crystallised at a party . |
| 12 | Far greater than any of these , second only to Palestrina himself , was Tomas Luis de Victoria ( c. 1548–1611 ) , who in 1565 came to Rome from Spain where Morales ( see p. 236 ) and his pupil Francisco Guerrero ( c. 1527–1599 ) had already arrived at a perfection of the Netherland style hardly distinguishable from the Roman . |
| 13 | She wanted to move the conversation along as she would do with any other person she had just met at a cocktail party , to talk of work and why they were there and if they could be of any use to each other . |
| 14 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 15 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
| 16 | South of Naples he had once lunched at a restaurant where they had endeavoured to translate the menu into English . |
| 17 | In my trade you come to read people quite accurately before you 've even glanced at a chart . ’ |
| 18 | Many had never stayed at a hotel or even had a cheap meal away from home . |
| 19 | She 's just snapped at a styling assistant who 's rearranging her hair yet again . |
| 20 | The second half began with some of the most remarkable scenes I have ever witnessed at a football match . |
| 21 | The idealists , committed to European federalism , have always aimed at a United States of Europe , with not just a single market and monetary union but a common defence and foreign policy as well . |
| 22 | Quite simply , we have now arrived at a stage where too much heat is being trapped . |