Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 3 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 4 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 5 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 6 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 7 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 8 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 9 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you know that you caught me at an age when Taureans are at their most vulnerable ? |
| 11 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 12 | The tired horse faced a journey of at least twenty miles across heavy country so he kept her at a sedate trot . |
| 13 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
| 14 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 15 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 16 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
| 17 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
| 19 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 20 | I , cos I saw her at a quarter past nine so |
| 21 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
| 22 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
| 23 | Perhaps it would be best if you left me at the cottage and went back to London . |
| 24 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 25 | Mr Crum would dismiss ye on the spot if you presented yourself at the warehouse wearing those … those … dancing girls ’ things … probably send me packing as well if I was along with you . ’ |
| 26 | But then if you did it at the stage before , before it gets into the Scottish Theatre Guide you can then make your dates available or you can agree your dates and you can get publicity and that at home . |
| 27 | ‘ The dining suite is Regency and we bought it at an auction in Bournemouth , ’ says Pauline . |
| 28 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 29 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 30 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |