Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Heathcliff and Hareton stood at the door , laughing , as I shouted at the dogs and tried to get up . |
| 32 | ‘ WHEN I knelt at the spot where Donald died I felt a knot that has been tied up inside me for three years slowly unravel . |
| 33 | Like Robinson Crusoe on his island , I trembled at the sight . |
| 34 | I write now as I found at the time . |
| 35 | For guitars I just used the Jaguar and a Broadcaster-type thing made for , I think , Jerry Donahue , which I found at the studio . |
| 36 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 37 | ‘ Is the candle at Paul 's church connected with the one Julia and I found at the asylum out-house ? |
| 38 | I gaped at the speaker as if she were a mirage . |
| 39 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 40 | In nineteen ninety S C F began its work providing facilities for prisoner 's families in Crumlin road in Belfast , Norwich prison , Strangeways and here in London 's Holloway prison for women which I visited at the beginning of June . |
| 41 | I caught at the word , as I was right to do . |
| 42 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
| 43 | I promised at the outset , however , to show that reductive treatment of these features of the mind leads to an incoherent conception of the world , quite independently of the inadequacies of the reductions themselves : that is , even if the reduction of consciousness and thought were not independently flawed , the picture of the world that emerges is incoherent . |
| 44 | I peered at the labels and too began the Harry , Frank , Charlie , Mabel way . |
| 45 | I peered at the photographs on the dressing table . |
| 46 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 47 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 48 | Someone grasped at the side of the cart as it went past , and Arkhina smashed his fingers with a hammer . |
| 49 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 50 | I trained at the Royal and I 'll be able to get you a bed immediately . ’ |
| 51 | This case is the first of the modern Court of Appeal authorities to which I referred at the beginning of this judgment . |
| 52 | What is important is the unequivocal , but in my respectful opinion wrong , statement of the law made by Viscount Dilhorne , at p. 632a ( to which I referred at the outset of my speech ) , that Parliament by omitting the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ from section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 ‘ has relieved the prosecution of the burden of establishing that the taking was without the owner 's consent . ’ |
| 53 | I mentioned at the start of this address that around the fire Joseph and Mary and their children would have gathered for fun and fellowship . |
| 54 | As I mentioned at the beginning , many of the methodological problems are faced by other social scientists , and , of course , sociologists of religion will also employ other sociological methods and techniques that I have not specifically mentioned ( it was , for example , important to use a pilot questionnaire to test my questions for ambiguities and so on ) . |
| 55 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 56 | Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 57 | I 'm here to represent you basically as , as your voice with any problem you have , as I mentioned at the beginning . |
| 58 | I mentioned at the beginning the idea of a classless society , now I do n't know what you think of the er the idea of a classless society , it 's something that the th th Prime Minister erm er er talked about when he , when he took office and I asked whether you think it 's possible to have , we if you think a classless society is possible at all , whether you think it 's desirable . |
| 59 | From this lengthy account the balanced reciprocity which I mentioned at the beginning becomes very clear but some of you may think that the detail is excessive . |
| 60 | Erm now , the other thing I mentioned at the beginning was certification of the system . |