Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 2 | I played in one at the previous place I worked . |
| 3 | I warned against it at the time , telling investors not to touch it with a bargepole . |
| 4 | When he emerged I saw behind him at the door a small , black-haired , middle-aged Japanese woman in a red kimono . |
| 5 | I smiled to myself at the absurdity of it . |
| 6 | Closing my eyes in the gloom I could still feel Helen in my arms and I smiled to myself at the memory of her bounding healthiness . |
| 7 | I do n't like the idea of Ventolin this is what I said to them at the hospital that I ca n't , cos I 'm not on |
| 8 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 9 | I see now we 've got lots to do this morning , you 're going to need to ignore what 's going on behind me , ah , it 's not happening , right , as I said to you at the very beginning of September I 'm the star , so you pay attention to me . |
| 10 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
| 11 | And I meant what I said about you at the start of this . |
| 12 | I waited for you at the gate . |
| 13 | ‘ Last December , ’ he continued in a lower voice , ‘ I ran across him at the Warton Castle sale in Sussex . |
| 14 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 15 | I sat opposite him at the Christmas do and he spent ages talking to me . |
| 16 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 17 | ‘ Call Moinet ! ’ he ordered , walking completely into the room , ignoring Jenna 's blushes as she sat there in her nightie , which was n't particularly revealing but which felt like it at the moment . |
| 18 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 19 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
| 20 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 21 | She could imagine what would be said if she arrived with one at the house in Newcastle Place . |
| 22 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 23 | His experience as a flyer was invaluable and those who worked with him at the time , recall the day he died . |
| 24 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 25 | Another Haute , Edmund , lost an annuity to Walter Hungerford , who petitioned for it at the end of May : an indication that the family 's gains from royal service were recognized as being available for redistribution . |
| 26 | Another Haute , Edmund , lost an annuity to Walter Hungerford , who petitioned for it at the end of May : an indication that the family 's gains from royal service were recognized as being available for redistribution . |
| 27 | Her hands fell idle in her lap and she stared around her at the bits of leather on the floor , at the row of wooden lasts along her bench , at the boots that needed new soles and heels and , with a sigh of despair , she dropped her knife and rose to her feet . |
| 28 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 29 | As she followed Penry as quickly as she could she looked about her at the island with interest , curious to see what had lain behind a veil of sea mist and rain since her dramatic arrival . |
| 30 | She would know at once when the right people entered the from the moment she looked upon them at the top of the wide staircase . |