Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We investigated , as we are obliged to , but found nothing wrong at the club . ’ |
| 2 | Town beat them 3-1 at the County Ground in October . |
| 3 | Agnes found herself surprised at the change in the gentleman 's voice as he looked at her father and said , ‘ Oh , yes , yes . |
| 4 | Startled , she looked up into Dane 's sea-blue eyes , and even as she tried to strengthen herself against him she felt a rush of longing so intense that it made her weak at the knees . |
| 5 | It 's a challenge all the more remarkable for the fact that not so long ago jetting off on holiday made her weak at the knees … |
| 6 | After the Nuuk meeting Danish Environment Minister Svend Auken declared himself disappointed at the " lack of political will " to tackle the problem . |
| 7 | Although environmentalists declared themselves disappointed at the outcome of the meeting , they acknowledged that substantial progress towards some form of comprehensive protection for Antarctica 's environment had been achieved . |
| 8 | That was the one that started it all at the 1976 Montreal Olympics . |
| 9 | By late March they were in Bologna , where Wolfgang was put through his paces by the famous theorist Padre Martini , who professed himself amazed at the boy 's ability to work out complex fugues on a brief given subject . |
| 10 | Robyn swallowed and glanced out at the pouring rain , glanced at him , at the carved , arrogant profile that irked and thrilled her all at the same time and then at the rain again . |
| 11 | And then he blew it all at the last minute with that interference . |
| 12 | I thought it odd at the time that he should feel so at home there . ’ |
| 13 | Police appealed to anyone who saw anything suspicious at the scene at around 12.45am to contact Middlesbrough CID on 248184 . |
| 14 | A White penalty made it 9–4 at the break . |
| 15 | I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should . |
| 16 | I got it cheap at the Co-op at Lyme . |
| 17 | but you would be the one that got it wrong at the end of the week if you did n't |
| 18 | Geoffrey , my brother , did him proud at the funeral and the young rabbi in Hull was moving and personal in his eulogy . |
| 19 | Many years ago when I was in a play with Thora Hird she presented us all at the end of the show with a bottle of champagne . |
| 20 | THE Coleraine club and local competitors again did us proud at the European Championship meeting at Kirkistown . |
| 21 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 22 | Slowly , carefully , he pushed her away from him , flicking his lazy dark eyes over her nakedness before reaching to pull her swimsuit back up again , smoothing it over her body with a practised skill which left her weak at the knees all over again . |
| 23 | Mr Crumwallis gazed at him in amazement , as if the worm had turned , and left him flabbergasted at the depths of human ingratitude suddenly exposed . |
| 24 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |