Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got nothing at the table right . |
| 2 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 3 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 4 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 5 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 6 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 7 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 9 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 10 | This man stopped real quick and blew his horn and shouted summat at me . |
| 11 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 12 | He shouted something at me or at his dogs , I do n't even now know which , and was gone into the night . |
| 13 | He shouted something at Endill but he could n't hear because of the wind and did n't dare move or shout back , frightened he would upset the basket . |
| 14 | Topknot shouted something at his nomes . |
| 15 | A man in the cab leaned out and shouted something at her as the fire engine churned past , but she could n't hear what . |
| 16 | Desmond Fairchild , paddling through the spotlights , his trousers rolled up to his hairy knees , shouted something at her . |
| 17 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 18 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 19 | Malcolm bounced one at Waqar , who spliced it some distance ; but midwicket was deep . |
| 20 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 21 | I caught one at my friend 's wedding last week . |
| 22 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
| 23 | There seemed nothing at all like this from what she had observed of Liza 's and John 's relationship . |
| 24 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 25 | At common law , if the court found that the plaintiff was partially to blame for his injuries , he received nothing at all . |
| 26 | Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend . |
| 27 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 28 | I just thrown something at the erm |
| 29 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 30 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |