Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured water on his handkerchief , then gently dabbed at Clare 's chin . |
| 2 | Sir Brian suddenly knelt at Athelstan 's feet and sketched the sign of the cross in the air . |
| 3 | The side door to the house swung in when he touched it probably only locked at night . |
| 4 | Grand Prix only started at quarter past eleven . |
| 5 | These I personally selected at training schools , generally those with " Distinguished " passes . |
| 6 | She only worked at Pembroke Lodge for four weeks and I hardly set eyes on her . |
| 7 | But I should not have been sent straight from school to Somerville on Classics ; I wanted to swap to History but did not know enough , so I was encouraged to do P.P.E. I was bored by both Philosophy and Economics so I only worked at Politics ’ . |
| 8 | Azmaveth only laughed at Lucien 's perplexity . |
| 9 | I suddenly felt at ease and I 'm just hoping I can stay in the side alongside Alan . ’ |
| 10 | A second , and more interesting , possibility is that subjects are actually recalling the situations in which they personally felt at risk irrespective of any other features of the junction . |
| 11 | On June 5th of that year he suddenly appeared at Racedown — ‘ he did not keep to the high road , but leaped over a gate and bounded down the pathless field ’ . |
| 12 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 13 | ‘ It does n't matter to you much , does it ? ’ he suddenly shot at Owen . |
| 14 | He was nothing if not patriotic — that is , he only drank at pubs called the Queen 's Head or Arms . |
| 15 | American banks ' loans totalled $157 billion in 1992 , of which one-fifth were not being serviced ; British banks ' lending to property companies alone stood at £37 billion in March 1993 . |
| 16 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1904 Alf returned to Roker Park for a club record fee of £520 ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) , but he only stayed at Sunderland for seven months . |
| 18 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 19 | " I just stopped at home . " |
| 20 | He got into the habit of coming down into our cell and asking an endless string of questions on vocabulary , which he normally directed at Terry . |
| 21 | Pressure generally came at moments of crisis , such as Suez in 1956 or the Irish conflict in the 1970s and 1980s , and tended to focus on particular programmes . |
| 22 | Trembling a little at this information , she finally arrived at Flintcomb-Ash . |
| 23 | After a seven hour train journey , I finally arrived at Dartington College of Arts . |
| 24 | They finally arrived at Lizzy 's ward . |
| 25 | We finally arrived at Caboolture Airport near Brisbane thirteen months after leaving London , greeted by Australian friends and the press . |
| 26 | Eventually we took off again , this time into the cloud-spattered European sky and finally arrived at Heathrow well past dark . |
| 27 | From here we carried on along a river and soon arrived at Sokol which has just one house — a traditional forester 's cabin with deer antlers above the front door . |
| 28 | Their fleets soon arrived at Constantinople and the war promised to be the most wide-ranging since the fall of the first Napoleon . |
| 29 | JUST ARRIVED AT Malcolm Levene 's store in Chiltern Street , London , is this ingenious , fully lined , collapsible leather suitcase . |
| 30 | By 1294 there already existed at Rouen , on the river Seine , a shipyard controlled by the king and employing specialist ship-builders brought in from Genoa . |