Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
| 2 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 3 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 4 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 5 | Right so you looked at this H C L plus C A C O three quite messy . |
| 6 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 7 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 8 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 9 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 10 | Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here . |
| 11 | It was only eight-thirty and it did n't seem likely that I 'd go to bed early , if I went at all . |
| 12 | Maura had never dreamt that she could feel like she felt at this moment . |
| 13 | Whoever she was — if she existed at all — she went with us through the mild , cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets . |
| 14 | His tender , almost lazy exploration of her body swelled her love till she felt that if she died at this very moment she would have lived her life to the full . |
| 15 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 16 | To complete the welcome , she had — on Aunt Bridget 's advice — paid particular attention to her own appearance , making sure that if she smelt at all , it was a dried of lavender . |
| 17 | ‘ If you looked at that picture long enough , Master , you 'd believe you were in Hell itself , ’ Ranulf murmured . |
| 18 | So ideally if you looked at that come to that . |
| 19 | I think it would be better — and we would both find it easier — if you looked at those in your own time ? |
| 20 | They 're kept warm When you saw those little babies last week that were born very , very premature , apart from being very small , if you looked at those arms and legs and their bodies what was the noticeably different about them than a full term baby ? |
| 21 | exactly , it 'll be cos we looked at this last week as you said at the end what happens dripping acid onto |
| 22 | We found some superb powder — all to ourselves , until we stopped at another excellent mountain restaurant at Le Prariond . |
| 23 | He had we started out somewhere I had no idea where we were going , until we arrived at this big building with a high railing surrounding the yard and a crowd of children shouting and playing in the yard . |
| 24 | And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching . |
| 25 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 26 | Of course , this group at Ephesus must have heard something about the Holy Spirit if they listened at all attentively to John the Baptist , but they did not realise that the promised Spirit was available for them ; that he could make a difference to their lives . |
| 27 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 28 | What men would her own two children marry , if they married at all ? |
| 29 | If they worked at all , they were late , had huge cost overruns , failed to live up to expectations , and lost out to their rivals ' more carefully thought through systems . |
| 30 | Also , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that when APR and/or total credit cost was lower for shorter repayment periods , people who had originally chosen the very longest possible repayment period tended to switch — if they switched at all — to a repayment period right at the other end of the scale . |