Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 2 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
| 3 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 4 | Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others . |
| 5 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 6 | Well I saw them at the , er round the corner at Mount Man Road , on that estate |
| 7 | Well somebody built them at the boat builders in Orkney built some . |
| 8 | Well they took her at the there was a I was gon na give one . |
| 9 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 10 | She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table . |
| 11 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
| 12 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 13 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 14 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 15 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |