Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at Jimmy Boyce , or rather he looked at his tie — all red and blue , almost patriotic , and yet the tie still hung at that curious angle . |
| 2 | I stayed like that for the minute or so we waited at the Lochgair station platform , and did n't stir again — yawning convincingly for any other passengers who might be watching — until we were crossing the viaduct at Succothmore . |
| 3 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 4 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 6 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 7 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 9 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |
| 10 | I 'm sure that when I came out of the room I was staggering , and instinctively I pawed at my mouth . |
| 11 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 12 | And so we stare at the pit in the earth and think we both do and do n't know what sculpture is ’ . |
| 13 | And so we arrive at last at the fully focused sentence . |
| 14 | And so we arrive at Fort William . |
| 15 | Frustration and lust tore at him , and so he tore at her . |
| 16 | And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet . |
| 17 | But a friend is a friend , and so I went at once to his house . |
| 18 | And so she rose at six and bathed , tapped on Lucy 's door at seven , to a clear ringing ‘ Come in ! ’ |
| 19 | On the contrary , ‘ Hinduism tells everyone to worship God according to his own faith or Dharma , and so it lives at peace with all the religions ’ . |
| 20 | Cutting across these are several other divisions , and below we look at four of the more important , each of which became more pronounced during the 1980s : geographical divisions , labour market divisions , racial divisions and gender divisions . |
| 21 | Life at home was good , I had become used to living with my parents , and gradually I integrated at school . |
| 22 | Freezing fog and still they drive at high speed . |
| 23 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 24 | ‘ And now I look at you , my lad , a good wash before tea would n't come amiss either . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I would have died for you when I married you , and now you laugh at my foolishness in marrying you ! |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been with Aurora for several years as her Girl Friday , and now you work at the club as her assistant . ’ |
| 27 | She had n't recognised him from the back , and now she stared at him in surprise . |
| 28 | I learnt by various devious means , ’ and here he winked at her , ‘ that they 'd been taken out by someone in the section that deals with the interrogation of defectors from the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | Suddenly I heard the noise of an animal jumping through the window , and immediately I hid at the back of my box . |
| 30 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |