Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 . ’
2 I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme .
3 But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression .
4 ‘ My car 's been stolen , ’ I screamed at the same traffic warden .
5 As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside .
6 I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together .
7 I resigned at the same time as they asked for my resignation .
8 Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did
9 The old woman came and silently cleared away , without once looking at me , even when I pointed at the few cakes left and praised them in my stilted Greek ; the hermit master evidently liked silent servants .
10 See some different characteristics and a supersonic and so that then , so the elevator and control services because at supersonic speeds , if you moved at the same distance , at six hundred mile an hour the elevator went like that , so that sort of
11 She came at the same time ; then , as he lay there , quivering in his spent heat , she rolled off him and on to her knees .
12 She arrived at the same moment as Nina and they saw that Greg was already unlocking the factory ambulance and David was in consultation with one of the factory managers .
13 She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc .
14 Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves .
15 She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window .
16 Tom Russell , she learned at the same time , drank his black as well .
17 She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger .
18 But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals .
19 Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining .
20 ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time .
21 We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ .
22 " Philip so honoured him " , wrote Roger of Howden , " that every day they ate at the same table , shared the same dish and a- night the bed did not separate them .
23 In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience .
24 All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time .
25 It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’
26 They arrived at the same time ! ’
27 Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting .
28 Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries .
29 the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh
30 There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ?
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