Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have two grown-up children and one grandchild and I enjoy big family gatherings — the Italian influence again — with everyone seated at a round table . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 5 | I pawed at the hairy form . |
| 6 | I shouted at the unfortunate Harry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 9 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
| 10 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 11 | I trained at the Royal and I 'll be able to get you a bed immediately . ’ |
| 12 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 13 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 14 | I lapped at the warm , rich blood ; very nice , very fresh . |
| 15 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 16 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 17 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 18 | One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed . |
| 19 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 20 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 21 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 22 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 23 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 24 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 25 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 26 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 27 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 28 | I taught at a private primary school for girls and really , compared with what some teachers go through , I had a terribly easy time , but I still could n't cope . |
| 29 | Just then , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 30 | After breakfast the next day , someone knocked at the front door . |