Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I gaped at the speaker as if she were a mirage . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | I caught at the word , as I was right to do . |
| 34 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | I peered at the labels and too began the Harry , Frank , Charlie , Mabel way . |
| 37 | I peered at the photographs on the dressing table . |
| 38 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 39 | Someone grasped at the side of the cart as it went past , and Arkhina smashed his fingers with a hammer . |
| 40 | as it was published , she does make allowances , she says some of the statistics I upgraded at the publication of the book |
| 41 | This case is the first of the modern Court of Appeal authorities to which I referred at the beginning of this judgment . |
| 42 | 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 . ’ |
| 43 | 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 ) . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | I 'm here to represent you basically as , as your voice with any problem you have , as I mentioned at the beginning . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Erm now , the other thing I mentioned at the beginning was certification of the system . |
| 50 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
| 51 | And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later . |
| 52 | Well er I think as I mentioned at the outset , there 's no fundamental technical problem er a system operating broadly in the same way er was designed an an and proved on the United Kingdom 's experimental aircraft programme er six or seven years ago , er this particular aircraft , the airfighter two thousand , will employ a rather more er extensive capability in its flight control system . |
| 53 | Situations vacant in particular showed a very , a very big drop and erm , and in fact we , the yield was lower than the year before , but we 've er , continued with our pac press rationalization programme and er , I think as I mentioned at the interims , the Basildon Evening Echo is now printed on the F T's presses , which incidentally has got the contract to and is printing er , . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | As I mentioned at the end of Chapter 1 , there is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopaedia Britannica , all 30 volumes of it , three or four times over . |
| 56 | On my way back to Sunset I stopped at the press trailer . |
| 57 | For some reason , Thomas ‘ we make music together ’ Carter crossed my mind , so after delivering the keys to the mechanic I stopped at the ticket agency . |
| 58 | On Crag Hill I stopped at the cairn to look down on Dentdale spread below me , Helms Knott , the Howgills and the distant forms of Cross Fell , Dun Fell and , facing me , the long ridge of Barbondale . |
| 59 | I stopped at the Duke of Wellington — a scruffy corner boozer off Union Street — just long enough to buy two cheese rolls and a can of low-al lager to go . |
| 60 | Before tearing myself away , I stopped at the edge of the market beside the asparagus-seller . |