Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Piano , Aaron , piano ! ’ she called , and her middle stepson , with his mobile thin white clown 's face , emerged from the crowd and seated himself at the instrument , as Liz called to Deirdre and the butlers to fill glasses and then join the guests for a toast : Jonathan turned on the radio , the eagle-crowned clock over the marble mantelshelf struck , some joined hands and some did not , Aaron struck up Auld Lang Syne , Big Ben struck , some sang and some did not , voices rose straggling , pure and impure , strong and weak , tuneful and tuneless , there were cries and embraces . |
| 2 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 3 | When he got there , he pulled an enormous bell-mouthed gun — I imagine it was a blunder-buss — from his belt and levelled it at the monster . |
| 4 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 5 | A stout butler led Alexandra across a hall floored in gleaming yellow wood and lined with large dark paintings , and announced her at the drawing-room door . |
| 6 | Robyn swore and flung herself at the stove , trying to scrape what was left of the bacon away from the bottom of the pan . |
| 7 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 8 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 9 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 10 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 11 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 12 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 13 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 14 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
| 15 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 16 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 17 | He took the kettle from its hook above the fire and filled it at the sink . |
| 18 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 19 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 20 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 21 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
| 22 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 23 | As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder . |
| 24 | John found a torch and shone it at the engine cowling . |
| 25 | Entering the cafe , the Blackshirts went upstairs and showed themselves at the window , which provoked a hail of missiles from the crowd below . |
| 26 | Willie climbed out of bed and joined him at the window . |
| 27 | She walked over and joined him at the table . |
| 28 | He crawled out of the trench and joined me at the gun . |
| 29 | ‘ So what I did was , I got some stones and threw them at the driver . ’ |
| 30 | Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage . |