Example sentences of "[vb past] [indef pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got nothing at the table right . |
| 2 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ shouted someone at the other end of the hut , as a boot bounced off the door just as the Sergeant made his exit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 6 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 7 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 8 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 9 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 10 | I just thrown something at the erm |
| 11 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 12 | — welcomed everyone at the start of a new academic year , and hopes you all have a record number of enrolments . |
| 13 | He risked everything at the short 15th after his five-iron tee shot finished among the rocks . |
| 14 | I heard everything at the Opera and Musikverein . |
| 15 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 16 | ‘ What are we going to sing ? ’ called someone at the back . |
| 17 | I felt nothing at the time and naïvely smiled to myself when I spotted it later . |
| 18 | ‘ They knew nothing at the bookshop , sir ; his sister , Sara , seemed very upset ; she would n't believe that he was n't at home . |
| 19 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 20 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 21 | Mould was a frenzied , energetic builder and did everything at a manic speed . |
| 22 | Before she could add , as she was evidently about to , that she never bought anything at the door , he announced himself hurriedly and asked for her husband . |
| 23 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 24 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
| 25 | Volker Rath , the German public prosecutor , tactfully said nothing at the time but later announced that Germany was suspending proceedings against the two Libyans for lack of evidence . |
| 26 | Gray said everyone at the club is deeply disappointed over the current situation but they all trying to put it right . |
| 27 | ‘ A woman in the next neighbourhood has one of those coils inside her , ’ said someone at a village meeting called by family planning workers in Bangladesh . |
| 28 | The limitations of other more ‘ correct ’ , less volatile Chopin struck one at every turn . |
| 29 | ‘ I had something at the hospital . ’ |
| 30 | had one at a time to contend with before . |