Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 2 | Most of my splicing I did at random , automatically . |
| 3 | I did n't want to stay there — I wanted to go home , but Mum told this old woman my name who smiled at me and showed me my bed and that . |
| 4 | As soon as I got into my flat I looked at the Supersight club with great care . |
| 5 | Placing his large hand on her head he looked at her mother . |
| 6 | As she rubbed her hand tiredly across her forehead she stared at the cheque until the writing blurred and danced before her eyes , and every word she had flung at him , every insult , seemed burned indelibly into her brain . |
| 7 | Eventually , if the train was on time , their journey which began at Paddington at 9 a.m. ended at Camborne Station at 9 p.m . |
| 8 | Trent held Mariana tight round the shoulders , blocking her view of her grandfather who knelt at the lavatory bowl as if in prayer . |
| 9 | In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves . |
| 10 | As he emptied his bladder he stared at his face in the shaving mirror . |
| 11 | On his return he settled at last under the protection of Cuthbert , first in the saint 's own resting place at Durham , then in a hermitage under the protection of Durham cathedral priory at Finchale by the river Wear — and the rest of his life is filled with his prayers and visions and miracles at Finchale . |
| 12 | His atrocities were numberless ; at the height of his career he struck at whole nations . |
| 13 | To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory . |
| 14 | It was only that faint burr in his voice which hinted at his background and made her realise that behind the elegant façade lay pure steel . |
| 15 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 16 | Over his shoulder she glanced at the clock over the door — the hands seemed to be moving very fast and she was reluctant to say it was time she was going . |
| 17 | Over his shoulder I looked at the sheets covering the Corporal , the bloodstain widening . |
| 18 | Much of his childhood he spent at Mottisfont Abbey , on the Test above Romsey ; there he began his lifelong study of birds . |
| 19 | Pushing the hair from his face he looked at the bedside clock . |
| 20 | For a number of years prior to his death he lived at 150B , High Street , Margate , a property which he owned . |
| 21 | Shortly before his death he appeared at the Fire Service Training College for the Central programme , ’ Frankie 's On … |
| 22 | erm in your case you worked at erm another neighbourhood office prior to erm , and how does it compare working ? |
| 23 | I remember two very special expeditions to the top of the Heath — not very far from our house which stood at almost the height of the cross on St Paul 's Cathedral , a fact that was emblazoned on the house above us in the East Heath Road . |