Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other thing that was interesting I learnt at dinner on Thursday night is , under the government 's legislation within so many years , nineteen ninety four I think , they 've got to ha have reduced their market share from the original hundred percent to sixty percent as new firms come in to sell gas |
| 2 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 3 | His original ambition was to be a painter , and in 1933 he enrolled at Goldsmith 's College School of Art . |
| 4 | D' ya know what , whenever I feel guilty about spending some money now , I just think about how much I spent at home . |
| 5 | At full nineteen he stood at life 's door , |
| 6 | For the first half of 1946 I remained at school , where the privileged handful of us who had won our places at Oxford and Cambridge did no work , read widely , cycled to the seaside . |
| 7 | When it got to about 1 a.m. he realised how cold it got at night when you are outside . |
| 8 | She 's well known in diplomatic circles , and she 's quite right in all she said at dinner , and although I contradicted her , there are strange rumours of war going around . |
| 9 | IN Part II we looked at advice and information . |
| 10 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 11 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 12 | Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement . |
| 13 | Those who remained at work were likely to find themselves increasingly isolated : Miss Brechin told me that she was the very last woman to work in Morrison & Gibb . |
| 14 | Tuesday 27th we camped at East Twinbrook , about five miles from where the waterway ends and where the Chewonki van would be waiting to take us back to camp . |
| 15 | Fifty per cent of mothers returning to work part time do so in lower level jobs than those they left at childbirth . |
| 16 | At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner . |
| 17 | The first one started at quarter past . |
| 18 | The first one leapt at Mogul . |
| 19 | Wednesday 21st we awakened at dawn to a chilly overcast day but spirits were good . |
| 20 | Far better to spend time with your other half and obtain some support and understanding than escape to the club to leave your loved one isolated at home . |
| 21 | In 1791 he offered at auction the much smaller , but very choice collection , known as the Bibliotheca Parisina , with catalogues in English and French . |