Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 2 | To please him , she travelled , learnt languages , read all the guide books to the cities he insisted they visit , became a sexual virtuoso , developed opinions on the classics and on contemporary literature , and learnt never to voice them at the dinner table unless asked . |
| 3 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 4 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 5 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
| 6 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 7 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 8 | The lady had cordially assured me at the outset that I was free " to party with anybody I liked the look of " ( this , except for the half-ounce bikini she wore , being her only hint that what we were sitting in was n't a beauty parlour or seminar room but actually a brothel . |
| 9 | Creggan had never seen her at the front of her cage before . |
| 10 | She insisted that she had never seen it at the design stage . |