Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 2 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 3 | In 1912 Walter Long accepted the phrase " the new style " and flung it back at the government : " The New Style consists in the cynical violation of the honourable traditions of public life . |
| 4 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
| 5 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 6 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
| 7 | The Repo Men armed their holy water-pistols and angled them down at the devil-made-flesh . |
| 8 | No you just marked it down and cleared it up at the end of the year . |
| 9 | Peter took her there and picked her up at the end of the day . |
| 10 | With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late ! |
| 11 | With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position . |
| 12 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |