Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , another regrettable aspect of her personality impelled her to smile specially at this man . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's precisely why I asked you to come here at such a bloody ridiculous time . |
| 3 | She watched him gazing amorously at those twin orbs , as white as marble , and as plump as pigeons . |
| 4 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 5 | ‘ Why did you turn left at that last corridor ? ’ |
| 6 | How did you get on at that wedding ? |
| 7 | Did she stay here at that time ? |
| 8 | ‘ Then why did she come back at all ? ’ |
| 9 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 10 | How many p people d di did he take on at that time then , when he first took over ? |
| 11 | Had we stayed longer at that depth , necessitating a stop , it would have been shown on the bar graph ( deco stop ceiling ) and the main display for the duration of that stop . |
| 12 | Why had he come here at all ? |
| 13 | When they parted they looked searchingly at each other . |