Example sentences of "[vb past] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His brows rose at this flash of spirit .
2 Glastonbury held the door open while a walking-frame entered at some speed followed by its lean and dapper-looking proprietor .
3 Fagin entered at this point , with two young men , and joined in the conversation .
4 Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place
5 From the later 1830s the rulers of Prussia and Russia maintained at each other 's courts military plenipotentiaries , high-ranking officers whose role in relations between the two monarchs was often more important than that of any diplomat .
6 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 .
7 I filled a syringe with a " mixed macterin " which we used at that time against the secondary invaders of distemper .
8 When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world .
9 I trembled at that nakedness and read :
10 His black hair sprouted at all angles from his scalp and he still had n't found time to shave .
11 but I do n't think you actually mentioned at any time you know the , the wife 's involvement in it other than that point .
12 He stopped at this thought , wondering if dogs came along here frequently .
13 We stopped at this place
14 Well what we did we stopped at this track and we turned round and we went to there was like a twenty foot straight yeah , and there 's like and everybody 's sort of like going , no , not that .
15 As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car .
16 I stopped at some lights on the East side .
17 When the train stopped at some town in Kent I got off .
18 Everyone involved at this period put in time and effort far beyond what might have been predicted .
19 He will start on the substitutes ' bench and Souness said : ‘ The chances are good people will see Barnes involved at some stage . ’
20 The two then fenced at each other with their beaks , each parrying the other 's thrust .
21 Sam and Rose mouthed at each other : ‘ Candle by the bed , ’ and nodded .
22 You tried at that point .
23 Moreover , short of methods of surveillance which are also not ‘ consistent with liberty and justice ’ it may be impossible to obtain evidence on what transpired at such meetings .
24 Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again .
25 According to Ibn Hajar , Molla Fenari seems to have ignored a number of invitations to audiences with the sultan , but was finally present at an audience to celebrate the Prophet 's birthday , held , according to al-Makrizi , on Friday 7 Rabi " I. Molla Fenari , who was seated below the shaykh of the Mu'ayyadiyya , Ibn al-Dayri , took no part in the learned debate which occurred at that audience but was later present at a private audience with the sultan , when the two conversed .
26 On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) .
27 During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history .
28 Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was .
29 Ludens and Irina jostled each other , shouted at each other , chattered to each other , argued a lot , laughed a lot .
30 This time , the couple still shouted at each other , but were open and honest about how they felt .
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