Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 17 | She could imagine what would be said if she arrived with one at the house in Newcastle Place . |
| 18 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She looked round her at the luxurious suite and shuddered . |
| 25 | Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there . |
| 26 | She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom . |
| 27 | The voting er you voted for them at the delegate meeting and I think it was the six top six highest in the vote became the standing orders . |
| 28 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 29 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
| 30 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |