Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 2 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 3 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 4 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 5 | Another sharp blast of heavy rain threw itself at the windowpanes of her flat , and brought Leith , startled , out of the brown study she had fallen into . |
| 6 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 7 | She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there . |
| 8 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 9 | Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies . |
| 10 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 11 | She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day . |
| 12 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 13 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 14 | ALISTAIR PRESENTED himself at the offices of the TLM in an unblinking trance of punctuality . |
| 15 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 16 | One of them stepped from the Sierra with the Kalashnikov and aimed it at the police car . |
| 17 | Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work . |
| 18 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |
| 19 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 20 | Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory . |
| 21 | He left her at the gates of the modern-looking block , then drove to St Michael 's , where Nicky Stone was a pupil . |
| 22 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 23 | The American star , who was later arrested for harassing an officer , hurled herself at the cops as she rushed to the aide of her pal . |
| 24 | Odd-Knut has given him a hunting knife , and pointed him at the trees . |
| 25 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 26 | But as she bent to cuddle them a small boy , brushing down a pony , picked up a lump of mud and hurled it at the dogs to drive them off . |
| 27 | As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance . |
| 28 | The warriors hurled themselves at the heads or horns of their animals to make them lie down . |