Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well ? ’ asked Morse at long last . |
| 2 | McCuaigs made whisky at Upper Cragabus ; one at Torrabus used to belong to Coal Ila ; and someone distilled at Ardinisle . |
| 3 | And , when she reached the wireless office , men who might resent her being there and fiends who transmitted Morse at devilish speeds … |
| 4 | Also under discussion today will be the inclusion of Boblyn Tuavao — the Tongan forward who has replaced Grima as the club 's third overseas player — in the Widnes side which beat Barrow at Craven Park last Sunday . |
| 5 | and er police rang them up Tuesday , cos er they found car at Great Alton , they went to pick it up , somebody had nicked it again |
| 6 | Masklin tried pictures at random and got several different sorts of fruit , a squeaky green vegetable thing , and a piece of meat that tasted rather like smoked salmon . |
| 7 | Pieper also promised delegates at Open Forum that the first wave of systems management tools and utilities for Unix System V.4 would be available during the first quarter of next year . |
| 8 | The castellated Raven Hotel ( a healthy clamber up the cliff path ) provided refreshment at reasonable prices . |
| 9 | Other families who provided JPs at different times , such as the Harcourts and the Hampdens , also feature among the Stonors ' correspondents ( 24 , i , facing 7 , 69–70 , 113–14 , 151 , ii , 57–8 ) . |
| 10 | He was more than usually serious and thoughtful tonight , he went with his eyes on the ground and his brows drawn , and smiled only fleetingly when she poked fun at Ednyfed 's wife to amuse him and get his attention . |
| 11 | We dropped people at outlying villages . |
| 12 | ‘ He noticed the Rover he had overtaken closing in on him , ’ he told magistrates at nearby Witney . |
| 13 | Practice was largely limited to horses by the peculiar constitution of the College , whereby subscribers of the richer sort sent their animals in for free treatment and received drugs at half-price . |
| 14 | He asked dealers at random to deliver the goods , and berated anyone who was obviously unprepared , particularly if he belonged to the streetwise contingent whose daily newspaper tended to be the Daily Mirror or The Sun . |
| 15 | The crisis was caused by the climatic phenomenon of " thermal inversion " , which trapped emissions at near-ground level . |
| 16 | The crowds burned one police car , destroyed five others , threw bottles at helmeted police , torched an overturned taxi , and ripped sod from the playing field at Tiger Stadium . |
| 17 | Mr Shaw was believed to have been waiting to collect fishbait near the shores of Belfast Lough at Quay Road , Newtownabbey as he did daily when a car pulled alongside and a gunman opened fire at point-blank range . |
| 18 | POLICE fired a number of baton rounds when about 150 youths threw stones at New Barnsley RUC station in west Belfast last night . |
| 19 | Students took to the streets after the Jerusalem stabbings and threw stones at Arab-owned vehicles . |
| 20 | The brilliant Martin Allen and Peter Butler ran the midfield and fed Morley at regular intervals but Knight used every part of his body to stem the tide . |
| 21 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 22 | Although Meciar pledged the same day to respect the rights of all in Slovakia , including " Hungarians , Poles , Ukrainians … not only as cohabitants but as brothers " , leaders of the 600,000-strong Hungarian minority in Slovakia expressed concern at recent attempts by Slovak leaders to enact restrictive language laws , and said that they would seek regional autonomy within independent Slovakia . |
| 23 | He also expressed concern at private evidence submitted to the committee by American airlines that the US Federal Aviation Administration was waiving its requirement that all hold baggage should be examined because British airport owners would not provide the extra space . |
| 24 | The manual ( RRP £80 ) began life at Inter-Continental Hotels when the group 's then chief executive , John Van Praag , well aware , among other things , of the impact of the international traveller 's habit of leaving lights on and of the chemicals used in a 500-bedroom hotel 's laundry , noticed a huge variation in environmental behaviour . |
| 25 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |
| 26 | On Dec. 5 , 1989 , Zimbabwe and Somalia established relations at diplomatic level . |
| 27 | Fergie voiced concern at Premier John Major 's £565 million Community Care Bill as she opened a drug rehabilitation centre in London . |
| 28 | The resulting projection of the retinal mosaic on to the lamina is then further projected by other cells into an array of medullary cartridges , while tangential nerve processes intersect the parallel , perpendicularly oriented neurons at various characteristic levels . |
| 29 | A concerted , unified response at local , national and international level is required to avert this major threat to human health . |
| 30 | In his book ‘ More than a Match : A Player 's Story ’ ( Stanley Paul Pounds 14.99 ) , published yesterday , Leeds striker Chapman , who viewed Clough at close quarters when he was at the City Ground , examines the alternatives . |