Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish .
2 Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in .
3 Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected .
4 I pawed at the hairy form .
5 It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival .
6 I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger .
7 And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying .
8 I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station .
9 We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity .
10 One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed .
11 I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’
12 As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met .
13 I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes .
14 I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead .
15 As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you .
16 When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch .
17 Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’
18 Just then , someone knocked at the front door .
19 After breakfast the next day , someone knocked at the front door .
20 Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street .
21 Over a hasty meal , I glanced at the Official Guide to County Meath , a gift from the manager .
22 I glanced at the answering machine in the corner and saw that the red light was glowing .
23 Once more I glanced at the large flour mill , temporarily closed , despite the addition of a new silvery turbine engine to take the place of water power .
24 Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door .
25 But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression .
26 He said I waved at the poor man like a loony .
27 I snarled at the inner voice .
28 , I was seventeen , I worked at the Flying Horse .
29 I started at the early age of five , and I was taught until I was ten , and all day at that .
30 And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine .
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