Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 2 | She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day . |
| 3 | I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket . |
| 4 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 5 | Ashi smiled as she knotted it at her throat . |
| 6 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |