Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them .
2 They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back .
3 Until Charlie paid her at the end of the week , Lucy would again be in her usual flat-broke condition .
4 Inside the kitchen , while Carrie busied herself at the range , Seb hovered behind her , wanting to touch her , but not daring to , in case she objected .
5 Corbett could only shout at Ranulf to stay and do nothing before Selkirk took him at a canter out of the abbey .
6 The bleeding persisted and Jean was very weak when Jim left her at the maternity ward .
7 It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball .
8 Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself .
9 He was obviously well-known because people nodded to him , smiled , glanced curiously at her as Feargal sat her at a small table at the rear .
10 He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) .
11 As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’
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