Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 32 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 33 | With a joy to his flight that evidently surprised and alarmed them he turned and stooped towards them at speed , not to attack them so much as show them that he was a golden eagle and could fly where he pleased . |
| 34 | They came past him at a run , three of them , two heading straight for the room that Pope had indicated on the floor plan . |
| 35 | Riven struggled out of the blankets and the cold ate into him at once . |
| 36 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 37 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
| 38 | Many expressed a desire to be able to get in touch , particularly with others who studied with them at Stirling . |
| 39 | I was getting over the feeling of rejection instilled into me at St Aubyn 's , which by making me aggressive had deprived me of so much that Eton had to offer . |
| 40 | But none of the boys who played with him at St Mark 's Roman Catholic Primary School in Shettleston could ever have guessed they were in the company of a very special talent . |
| 41 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 42 | If she believed in anything at all then it was that . |
| 43 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 44 | They sat quietly in Jerusalem until the Spirit came upon them at Pentecost ; then they could not keep quiet about the mighty deeds of God . |
| 45 | I played in one at the previous place I worked . |
| 46 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 47 | The idea appealed to me at once , a plane full of women who , as soon as they arrived in Corfu would pounce on the natives of the island . |
| 48 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 49 | The girl came to him at once , her face a reflection of his own , eyes wide , her teeth biting on her lip . |
| 50 | According to Florence of Worcester , shortly after Æthelred died in April 1016 certain English churchmen and nobles elected Cnut king , came to him at Southampton , swore fid-elity and repudiated all Æthelred 's progeny ; in return , he vowed to be a good lord in matters both church and lay . |
| 51 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 52 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 53 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 54 | ‘ She came to us at St Sylvester 's , ’ Theodora amplified . |
| 55 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 56 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 57 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 58 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 59 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 60 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |