Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time .
2 The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast .
3 Nothing moved at the crossroads , or nothing that threatened a soldier 's life .
4 Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’
5 All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ .
6 The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ?
7 I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years .
8 I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings .
9 Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish .
10 I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ?
11 I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper .
12 And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing .
13 The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are .
14 However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art .
15 If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines :
16 Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in .
17 As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things .
18 Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) .
19 I realised at the beginning of 1992 that we were not core and that we were to be disposed of — we had a very difficult year . ’
20 Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected .
21 Mr J A Rawson , who I met at the ‘ latter Lee ’ in 1985 , remembered when the fair was on the Baghill site .
22 As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’
23 Everyone else I met at the LIBF was welcoming , even when I was humming and hawing over buying singles or two copies of a small number of titles .
24 If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son .
25 I pawed at the hairy form .
26 I am not a modernist , though I presided at the Arts Council with liberal equanimity over the public funding of much modernist art which I did not understand .
27 The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table .
28 The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer .
29 Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls .
30 I shouted at the unfortunate Harry .
  Next page