Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] 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 | I 'm sure that when I came out of the room I was staggering , and instinctively I pawed at my mouth . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | Frustration and lust tore at him , and so he tore at her . |
| 12 | And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet . |
| 13 | But a friend is a friend , and so I went at once to his house . |
| 14 | And so she rose at six and bathed , tapped on Lucy 's door at seven , to a clear ringing ‘ Come in ! ’ |
| 15 | Life at home was good , I had become used to living with my parents , and gradually I integrated at school . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had n't recognised him from the back , and now she stared at him in surprise . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Suddenly I heard the noise of an animal jumping through the window , and immediately I hid at the back of my box . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | We lost touch for a couple of years and then we met at the Coventry Specimen Group Stag Night and found that each of us had conceded to an extent and were now using almost identical rods . |
| 22 | And then we sat at the far side of the Old Gate bridge and er an old lady came along and said , and she was counting them but she said , just look at that thing , she counted seven although , in actual fact , by then th these dra the seven drakes had stopped cha chasing the duck and they were all sitting down . |
| 23 | And then they came at us from both sides . ’ |
| 24 | Marshalling began on 1 June , and then they embarked at Southsea and arrived at 19–00 hours , 6 June ( 'D' Day ) on the Normandy Coast at Le-Breche . |
| 25 | Well they set off they towed it up and then they had at least six six of them Burn Transit lorries all towing it up . |
| 26 | It was hot , dusty work checking endless fencing and huge flocks of sheep ; so every now and then they stopped at a trough at one of the wells , so that Jester could drink and his owner could splash his face and arms in the water . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , ’ she said , and then she looked at him . |
| 28 | She sat up , rubbing the sleep from her eyes , and then she looked at him archly . |
| 29 | And then she looked at the empty stairway beside her . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Rose , ‘ Do n't you ? ’ and then she looked at her sister and they both looked at their laps and a heavy silence fell . |