Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my heart dipped at the thought . |
| 2 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 3 | ‘ But when my contract expires at the end of the season I 'll be keeping my fingers crossed that one of the top clubs will be interested in signing me . |
| 4 | My dad was a coach builder and my mum worked at the gas board . |
| 5 | The erm help available is in many ways decreasing erm I 'm afraid we have to drag politics into it sooner or later , but central government funding , or lack of it , erm to my mind lies at the bottom of many of these problems . |
| 6 | Most of the rock has bolted routes and my mind boggled at the potential . |
| 7 | ‘ The first Svend knew that there was a search on for Suzie and himself was when my agent arrived at the house earlier this evening , ’ Rune told her calmly as he sorted through a small pile of leaflets . |
| 8 | One day as I arrived at the palace my horse shied at the sight of a white fragment on the ground . |
| 9 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
| 10 | I mean er and as I say you had everything erm when er I wanted coal I mean you had coal erm because after my husband ceased at the pit , er that ceased because , cos miners always had coal as part of their er it was part of their wages you see . |
| 11 | My husband stayed at the mine . |
| 12 | I could not sleep but lay on my back staring at the blackness , listening to the wind and one of the lads snoring . |
| 13 | He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato . |
| 14 | And there 's a time when my father lived at the , and I 'm going up the road this night and I hears this queer kind of grunting , and I could n't understand it of course it was dark and I hears it again . |
| 15 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 16 | Eventually we moved to Dorset where my father taught at the local grammar school . |
| 17 | In 1963 my father died at the age of sixty-one , four years short of his pensionable age . |
| 18 | Well er my father worked at the farm Odness . |
| 19 | Just at that moment I heard the kitchen door open , and seconds later my father appeared at the bottom of the stairs and , taking hold of the great wooden ball sculpted on to the top of the last banister , stood glaring up at me . |
| 20 | I represented this city at Florence at the cost of two days ' leave , and having my pocket picked at the station |
| 21 | My man waits at the end of it . |
| 22 | Erm , I had to have my luggage checked at the airport |
| 23 | I had to have my luggage checked at the airport , you see what 's happened to the end of that word , look at it right , you 've got age at the end because what rule is working there ? |
| 24 | I used to find my bed set at an angle from the wall , and though I straightened it , always it was moved back into this odd position . |
| 25 | ‘ I would consider it my duty to remain at the salon until you had found a suitable replacement for me , ’ she said primly . |
| 26 | we went to Ascot with my dad standing at the bar all day , we watched |
| 27 | My master stared at the flower curiously before bending over Ruthven 's corpse . |
| 28 | At that moment my master appeared at the door . |
| 29 | ‘ It was my task to follow at the rear ! ’ |
| 30 | My mother glanced at the clock before looking at the window to ascertain that the garden was already retreating into night , and drew the curtains . |