Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that song that you mentioned that you quoted at the beginning of the programme ‘ Look into the Irish , the Welsh and the Scot , you 'll find he 's a stinker as likely as not ’ is how it went on . |
| 2 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 3 | Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen . |
| 4 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 5 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 6 | Sharpe had no watch , but he estimated that he stayed at the edge of the wood for two hours during which time he counted twenty-two guns and forty-eight supply wagons . |
| 7 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 8 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 9 | ‘ The problems came when I protested at the removing without consultation of Christmas bonus pay and the halving of overtime paid while accompanying residents on holidays . ’ |
| 10 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 11 | Jinny did not understand , but the boy 's head turned and he stared at the Hare-woman . |
| 12 | But her legs shook and she clutched at the bed , which seemed to recede and there was a strange , fizzing sensation in her head . |
| 13 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |
| 14 | He frowned as he stared at the brown water still gushing from the tap . |
| 15 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 16 | Scathach 's horse panicked and he shouted at the creature , which stamped in the water , twisting and tugging with discomfort . |
| 17 | The structure of this argument is important because we find it repeated when we look at the traditional ways in which it is sought to legitimate private power . |
| 18 | Otley called as he charged at the Romans . |
| 19 | Its Durkheimian origin meant that it suffered at the outset from the more general problems of Durkheim 's functionalist approach . |
| 20 | He gave me schnapps and insisted that I stay at the hotel the SS man had mentioned . |
| 21 | Belkhuban 's father died while they waited at the border to get here … her brother 's been left behind … she has nothing , but she shared bread and tea with us . |
| 22 | Something clicked as I looked at the number . |
| 23 | Her head ached : she could encompass no more , She felt as she felt at the end of some long and erudite lecture in a foreign tongue ; her mind would no longer pay attention . |
| 24 | He slowly lifted the hand which had been clutching his , opened it and very gently implanted a kiss on its palm , and laughed when she gasped at the caress . |
| 25 | WHEN bought Burston windmill he could never have envisaged all the changes which would take place — but he always chuckled when he looked at the map — geographically he had bought the high ground . |
| 26 | Melody smiled as she plucked at the material of the loose sleeves . |
| 27 | No one answered when we called at the Manor House , which is at the end of a long secluded drive overlooking the estate . |
| 28 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 29 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |
| 30 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |