Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Havel , who has a genius for pinpointing the absurd , smiled gently and sipped at some mineral water . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) A solicitor 's employee who would not otherwise qualify under sub-paragraph ( 1 ) ( b ) of this rule to manage an office and who was 50 years of age or more on and had at that date been continuously employed in connection with the practice of that solicitor for not less than 20 years shall , provided he or she exercised the duty of management at that date , be entitled to continue to do so until retiring or attaining the age of 70 years , whichever first happens . |
| 3 | Starting at the airman 's feet he moved up and raved at each disaster until he came to his head . |
| 4 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 5 | And the night that it was over we met in our quarters , we poured a drink and we stood there and looked at each other and he said well , we made it . |