Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 2 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 3 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 4 | And my answer always was that I could not expect too much when I expected nothing at all for I never thought that anyone whom I could love , would stoop to love ME . |
| 5 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 6 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 7 | Prof Chris Turner , professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences , Stirling University , made his at this week 's Children 's Panels conference at Peebles : |
| 8 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 9 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 10 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 11 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 12 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 13 | I found them at last . |
| 14 | Dozens turned out to ride the Severn Bore which at some stages was five feet high . |
| 15 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 16 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 17 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 18 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 19 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 20 | Erm what did we do yes , well we went , I , I went to Isobel at what , I found her at three , we had . |
| 21 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 22 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 23 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 24 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 25 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 26 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 27 | Sister Ellen , our SND General Moderator , visited us at one of the farm schools . |
| 28 | ‘ I know lads who got theirs at eighteen in Cyprus . ’ |
| 29 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 30 | The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed . |