Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] [vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If Agrippa gave an order they obeyed with alacrity , but sometimes I caught them watching me and shuddered at the amusement in their icy , pale-blue eyes .
2 I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought .
3 He took the seat to which Carson had gestured him and glanced at the message slip .
4 I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling .
5 She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together .
6 I may even have just called for him and stood at the door .
7 But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club .
8 She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer .
9 She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills .
10 He had moved past her and stood at the foot of a soaring staircase , hands on his hips .
11 He opened it and looked at the video tape cassette inside .
12 She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning .
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