Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 2 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 3 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 4 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 5 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 6 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 7 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 8 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 9 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 10 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 11 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 12 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 13 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 14 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 15 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 16 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 17 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 18 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 19 | All the villagers had an increasing tendency to address Lydia , if they had to address her at all , in the third person through the medium of Betty and it seemed that Elizabeth too had caught the habit . |
| 20 | Medieval town planners , as many cities further north bear witness , would have provided a more sensible plan if they had provided one at all . |
| 21 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 22 | Until now it had meant nothing at all , but now she really knew what it meant . |
| 23 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 24 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 25 | If he had drunk anything at all , it had left him . |
| 26 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 27 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 28 | In short , he had identified himself at last with the spirit of the times . |
| 29 | And he was never quite sure why he had married her at all . ’ |
| 30 | Neither of them had liked him at all . |