Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 2 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 3 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 4 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 5 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 6 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 7 | And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third . |
| 8 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
| 9 | I think he caught me at a vulnerable moment , when I was more worried about myself than I am now . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , Veronica , you caught me at a bad moment , ’ Loretta said apologetically . |
| 11 | Mind you can always say to you caught me at a bad time , you say , it 's supposed to have appointment only , but just say , can you , is there any chance of you coming back . |
| 12 | Apart from our regular rehearsals we often found ourselves at a loose end and would all troop round together . |
| 13 | I was convinced that the law would back us , so I found someone at a local law centre and she confirmed it , so we went back . |
| 14 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 15 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 16 | HOLDER John Parrott yesterday pronounced himself at a career peak after reaching the semi-finals of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston . |
| 17 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 18 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 19 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 20 | She found herself at a loss for words . |
| 21 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 22 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 23 | He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes . |
| 24 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 25 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 26 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 27 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 28 | ‘ No , his analyst told me at a party in New York . ’ |
| 29 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 30 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |