Example sentences of "[vb pp] [num] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football . |
| 2 | Gen. ( retd ) Gustavo Leigh Guzmán , a former Air Force commander and member in 1973-78 of the military junta under Pinochet , was shot five times at close range by unidentified youths on March 21 in Santiago , and was taken to hospital in a critical condition . |
| 3 | Graeme Woodhatch , 38 , was shot four times at close range as he made a phone call at the Royal Free Hospital in London 's Hampstead in May . |
| 4 | It makes people wonder why he 's only had one season at top level , never been bought by a successful club , and why Kevin Keegan is letting him move on to Coventry now . |
| 5 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 6 | Using funds from a variety of sources — notably Scottish Homes , Historic Scotland , Edinburgh District Council and Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd — the Lister Co-operative has created 50 flats at affordable rents out of former dereliction . |
| 7 | Each sampled household is surveyed five times at quarterly intervals so that , every month , 1000 new households enter the study and 1000 households leave it . |
| 8 | And it was quite a career , capped 32 times at stand-off or centre , playing with distinction in two British Lions tours . |
| 9 | Illustrious career : McGeechan was capped 32 times at stand-off or centre and played with distinction in two British Lions tours |
| 10 | Over a period of about a year he was regressed six times at regular intervals . |