Example sentences of "[det] [pers pn] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 2 | Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted . |
| 3 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 4 | This I discussed at once with my Scoutmaster , who had served as an officer in the Gordons during the war and was now a schoolmaster . |
| 5 | This I wondered at . |
| 6 | This she displayed at her belt , though she had neither the intention nor the resource to use it . |
| 7 | On one occasion she threw herself against a glass display cabinet at Kensington Palace while on another she slashed at her wrists with a razor blade . |
| 8 | My father was due four months ' leave and this they spent at Beachley , his attractive house near Chepstow at the mouth of the Severn . |
| 9 | This they did at an Intergovernmental Conference in 1837 when Hessen , defensive of its national sovereignty , suggested a parallel currency rather like the hard ecu . |
| 10 | This they did at Motherwell , and the Dalzell works began operations early in 1872 , employing 200 men . |
| 11 | This he accomplished at the sea-battle of Svold , on 9 September 999 . |
| 12 | D' ya know what , whenever I feel guilty about spending some money now , I just think about how much I spent at home . |
| 13 | Then she snatched a cigarette from a box , her hand shaking so much she laughed at the difficulty she had in lighting it . |
| 14 | Theda was busy with her hair , but at that she glanced at him and saw the hurt in his eyes . |
| 15 | These they unloaded at West African ports along with cloth , linen , glass beads and bronze manillas . |
| 16 | All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails . |
| 17 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |
| 18 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 19 | We need the money , and from all I heard at the Gaudy , Somerville still deserves it . |
| 20 | ‘ Look where it 's got us ! ’ — that was the assumption behind all I said at Diodati the other evening . |
| 21 | That sounded expensive , and limited spending money was really all she had at her disposal , but could she seriously spend even one night under the same roof as that … that arrogant … libertine ? |
| 22 | She 's well known in diplomatic circles , and she 's quite right in all she said at dinner , and although I contradicted her , there are strange rumours of war going around . |
| 23 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 24 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 25 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 26 | An Arsenal friend of mine admitted that all he wanted at the moment was for Leeds to catch Scum . |
| 27 | With those I returned at speed to the boathouse and attacked the lower door , first hammering the toe of the tyre lever into a nonexistent crack between the wooden door frame and the surrounding brickwork at a level just below the keyhole , then bashing the far end of that iron , to put heavy leverage against the door frame , then wrenching out the lever and repeating the whole process above the lock , this time with fury . |
| 28 | Far and away superior to those we had at our base RAF Hinaidi , and certainly better than those enjoyed by officers in the Mess . |
| 29 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 30 | Fifty per cent of mothers returning to work part time do so in lower level jobs than those they left at childbirth . |