Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 2 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 3 | But many people only laughed at these stories . |
| 4 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 5 | The boy said nothing , only looked at both of us with wide-open eyes , but there were no tears despite the pain . |
| 6 | The two witches suddenly looked at each other in horror . |
| 7 | I just glanced at both your hands earlier on , just glanced , you know , and I seemed to see something quite unexpected written there . |
| 8 | 'E just looked at all the people for a minute without saying anythink . |
| 9 | But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing . |
| 10 | We just looked at each other . |
| 11 | She had n't really given him time to explain , just looked at that horrible creature prancing about in the hall all sexed up , and assumed the worst . |
| 12 | Therefore , if I just looked at some of those policy teams that I referred to in my presentation , I would expect , and it 's happening , that we would be taking on board , in each of those policy teams , the policy development work that 's applicable to Europe . |
| 13 | I just looked at this piece of paper in horror and was pounced on . |
| 14 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 15 | We hardly attacked at all . |
| 16 | This time , the couple still shouted at each other , but were open and honest about how they felt . |
| 17 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 18 | Largely established during the colonial era , it hardly changed at all after independence . |
| 19 | Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year . |
| 20 | Last season he hardly played at all because of his medical studies , but according to Barry Wilson , the club professional at Shandon , his big game has never been sharper . |
| 21 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 22 | If he ever arrived at that most famous of all Dwarf Holds the Dwarf records do not tell . |
| 23 | Public-sector land owners were often under an obligation to obtain the best price possible , which was unlikely to happen in times of such severely-restrained demand and when an urban-land market hardly existed at all . |
| 24 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 25 | Firmly bandaged , it hardly protested at all . |
| 26 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 27 | A much larger body , the Great Council , still survived at that date , meeting occasionally when the King wanted the views of the notables . |
| 28 | Emissions from power stations , which account for about 80 per cent of the total , hardly fell at all . |
| 29 | Do you think that in all schools the head always looked at all the reports ? |
| 30 | erm I 'm not someone who 's for , for example , erm positive discrimination where that means choosing a woman when there 's a better man erm and I think that erm although some feminists do , certainly it 's not a necessary condition of being a feminist , and I certainly do n't , and I think that if John Major erm sincerely looked at all the women who could have been in his cabinet , and sincerely judged their abilities erm compared to the men who were available , erm and decided that the women were n't ready , then I think that 's , that 's a possible position . |