Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 2 | I think I came unstuck at the last fence |
| 3 | I I played canny at the end rather than |
| 4 | I felt embarrassed at the prospect of meeting him . |
| 5 | The only thing I saw wrong at the time was that David and Tony began not to communicate . |
| 6 | I had quite forgotten that Mrs Bailes occasionally tethered him in the kennel at the entrance to discourage unwelcome visitors , and as I half lay against the wall , the blood thundering in my ears , I looked dully at the long coil of chain on the cobbles . |
| 7 | I went scarlet at the word ‘ knickers ’ . |
| 8 | The same is true of the altogether exceptional recording , which held my concentration so effortlessly that I could hardly believe that nearly a whole hour had passed when I emerged elated at the other end . |
| 9 | I sat right at the front , my head tilted back as if for a nose-bleed , the stick of my sherbet lolly angled like a thermometer , in a quiet fever of excitement . |
| 10 | I sat late at the window , bland with rage , |
| 11 | Though sometimes interrupted by law work , I sat tight at the story , sometimes writing as much as two chapters a day . |
| 12 | ‘ Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head . |
| 13 | She gazed clear-eyed at the mountains outside the window . |
| 14 | Joan 's face paled and she gazed wide-eyed at the duchess , as if suspecting that lady had taken leave of her senses . |
| 15 | She seemed ill at the meet just before the accident . |
| 16 | But the real on-course caring was not to return fully until she turned professional at the start of 1984 . |
| 17 | Her eyelids flew up , and she stared wide-eyed at the carved steel mask of Guy 's dark face above her . |
| 18 | ’ She looked bleak at the recollection of those dark hours . |
| 19 | Like them , she looked dazzling at the show in Birmingham . |
| 20 | She went weak at the thought . |
| 21 | Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees . |
| 22 | She felt angry at the idea being thrust on her , and more determined in her purpose of obtaining money for the drainage of the West Bog . |
| 23 | She felt sick at the thought . |
| 24 | She grew hot at the thought of his strong hands performing such intimate tasks . |
| 25 | She sounded excited at the prospect , alert , like any animal at the beginning of something — a race , a hunt , a battle . |
| 26 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |
| 27 | In the end , the understandings we have offered here came about indirectly from the actual learning process itself and contact with the deaf community as much as from the direct questioning we felt necessary at the initial stage . |
| 28 | They seemed shocked at the suggestion . |
| 29 | No wonder they looked tired at the end . |
| 30 | Would he tell us then what he believes the impact of the er pay settlements will have on the spending he 's allowed local authorities because it seems to me there must either be a cut in staff er and a cut in services if they 're gon na keep within the the money that he made available at the time when he was n't aware of these settlements . |