Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point . |
| 2 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 3 | Boycs asked me at Headingley if I had a big car . |
| 4 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 5 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 6 | Another couple of lads joined me at Middlesbrough station and off we went to be gentlemen 's gentlemen . |
| 7 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 8 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 9 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 10 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 11 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 12 | Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream . |
| 13 | ‘ There must have been other women , ’ Jenna began mournfully , but his lips silenced her at once and he kissed her possessively until she began to tremble all over again . |
| 14 | Several emotions battered her at once then , so how she managed to find a voice that was as cool as his she would never know . |
| 15 | Allitt fed her at 12.30pm and her parents collected her at 4pm . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 17 | TV COMMENTARY duties saw us at Headingley on a Tuesday followed by Cardiff on the Thursday . |
| 18 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 19 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 20 | If you thought ram-raids had nothing at all in common with bungee jumping , you were wrong . |
| 21 | By nightfall all the rifle companies had been over-run ; some sections , and platoons from these companies extricated themselves at nightfall . |
| 22 | Rebels stopped him at the airport but his whereabouts were not known last night . |
| 23 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
| 24 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 25 | Our distinguished guests left us at Oban where we returned the following day . |
| 26 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 27 | The hounds threw themselves at the gate . |
| 28 | The price of baby blankets surprised me at £5 each . |
| 29 | Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 . |
| 30 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |