Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] at a " in BNC.

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1 For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’
2 Although these are sometimes slavishly historical , or played at a frenetic tempo ( as if over-eager to cast off the stately past ) , the benefits of such experiments are clear .
3 For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion .
4 But all that changed at a phenomenal pace .
5 Pope Clement , however , was not inclined to agree and that occurred at a time when the people of England were annoyed at the imposition of heavy taxation by the Cardinal Morton , also Cardinal Wolsey .
6 Their movements were deliberate and careful and Wycliffe had the impression of figures in slow motion , indeed of a whole existence that proceeded at a slower pace , muted , subdued , and infinitely depressing .
7 Idly she unravelled the muddle of paths , wandering past low , stunted railings , and dwarf ‘ Keep off the grass ’ signs sprouting from the balding turf ; past desolate putting greens ; past tightly-shuttered refreshment kiosks ; past the narrow lanes marked ‘ Men ’ and Women' that commenced at a modest distance from each other and wound through dark shrubbery to merge in a single , dripping tomb , divided by a wall .
8 Sir Leon was defending the compromise proposal that emerged at a meeting of the Community 's industry ministers this week , whereby the Commission might grant temporary exemptions to countries facing problems in opening their markets .
9 But none of these incidents could possibly have matched that witnessed at a masquerade organized by Lord Tylney at Wanstead House , Essex , in 1768 , as recorded by an Italian noblewoman staying with the Tylneys at the time .
10 I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard .
11 Nevertheless they mounted and rode at a good trot up the great road towards the north .
12 Victoria turned over in her sleep and cooed at a dream .
13 The deepest area is a central depression some 2500km long and 1500km wide , surrounding the North Pole and oriented at a right angle to Greenland ( Figure 5.2 ) .
14 A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand .
15 We all take drugs in some form or another , some are legal , you can buy them over the counter or your G P may prescribe , those are illegal , but still widely available and used at a price .
16 He took up a fork and prodded at a dish of small silvery fish marinated in olive oil , garlic and wine vinegar .
17 There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot .
18 and woke at a slant .
19 He took the wheel after that and drove at a furious speed back to San José , where he turned right on to the Pan-Am .
20 The labelled cells were washed with medium and resuspended at a concentration of 1×10 5 cells/ml .
21 Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level .
22 She did n't look at him now , but stared at her plate , and nibbled at a piece of fresh bread as a way of avoiding conversation .
23 In 1984 , radio astronomers from Columbia University identified electro-magnetic vortices in our Milky Way and arrived at a similar conclusion to the theories of Alfven and Perratt .
24 So off I went … and arrived at a country house with a large garden .
25 We stayed for three days , and then we took the night boat to Belgium , and arrived at a tall , fine school building in the centre of Brussels .
26 The case trotted on at something slightly better than the conventional pace of litigation in this country and arrived at a point where each side had to ‘ discover ’ to the other all relevant documents relating to the matter .
27 By the early 1970s the CNAA had established and reviewed policies ; framed a pattern of degrees and made the revisions which resulted , for example , in the adoption of the degree and degree with honours , branching from a common foundation , to replace the essentially two-track ordinary and honours structure ; and arrived at a broad and growing diversity of subject areas to validate , with a potential to make a major contribution in additional areas .
28 On that basis Mr took the cost of one professional carer as twenty three thousand eight hundred and six pounds a year , he multiplied by three point five and arrived at a figure of eighty three thousand three hundred and twenty one pounds .
29 We turned on a pre-arranged course and climbed at a predetermined rate of feed per minute at a certain airspeed .
30 I unscrewed the cap and sniffed at a minute drop of liquid — it was odourless .
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