Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 2 | I made my entry at the end of the song . |
| 3 | I discharged my responsibility at the court , and that is that . |
| 4 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 5 | WHILE Swansea maintained their position at the head of the Heineken League 's Division One with a comfortable 23–4 win over bottom club Maesteg , Llanelli stayed in touch , one point behind , by beating Cardiff 22–6 . |
| 6 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 7 | Mikhail Gorbachev got his hands on a Montego when he visited its home at the Cowley assembly plant in Oxford 7 years ago , just before taking office at Soviet leader . |
| 8 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
| 9 | She jerked her head at the boy and he went over and turned the knob . |
| 10 | She jerked her chin at the box of letters . |
| 11 | Newton Aycliffe 's Christine Brunskill also avenged her defeat at the hands of Middlesbrpugh and Cleveland Harrier Marie Stansmore . |
| 12 | Group fixed ( above ) concentrated its search at the correct feeder location ( intersection of uninterrupted lines in the lower left region ) , while group varied searched randomly around the L+ landmark ( intersection of uninterrupted and dotted lines ) . |
| 13 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 14 | Then she caught her breath at the evidence of his arousal , but he stayed so still that , fascinated , she touched him , and felt the jerk of his response as she stroked and encircled his warm , hard flesh in an investigation that was both shy and bold . |
| 15 | He kept rubbing his cheek against mine , and so I was thankful when his mother stopped her trolley at the back of a bright red Mercedes . |
| 16 | Thresher insiders believe the company changed its decision at the last minute after TODAY 's revelations yesterday . |
| 17 | She found her husband at the foot of the bed cropuching over a wooden box into which the pipe had been inserted . |
| 18 | The two soon concentrated their business at the Albion brewery . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 20 | I have this from her own mouth , for I visited her house at the Falster ferry , at a time when her husband was arrested for a crime . ’ |
| 21 | Great cars helped to develop great drivers and wealthy Britons Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin were two of the many aristocrats that tried their hand at the sport . |
| 22 | Kirkpatrick helped his father at the forge , worked on a neighbouring farm , got a job as a coachman , and at twenty-two became an assistant to the blacksmith of Walter Scott , fifth Duke of Buccleuch [ q.v. ] , at Drumlanrig . |
| 23 | He jerked his head at the shy . |
| 24 | Although Billing retained his seat at the 1918 general election , ill health forced his retirement in 1921 . |
| 25 | Dr Neil , coming into the parlour where McAllister was permitted to knit and sew , caught his breath at the sight of her with the doll . |
| 26 | Polsky used his ability at the pool-table in his study of ‘ hustlers ’ : |
| 27 | Another bogus defector was code-named Fedora , possibly in reality Viktor Lessiovski , who used his work at the United Nations as a cover . |
| 28 | Mr Redwood used his debut at the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen at the weekend to ram home this message , which will have special meaning for Welsh-speaking communities in North Wales . |
| 29 | Later during the first journey , comedian Jimmy Edwards tried his hand at the controls . |
| 30 | He tried his hand at the Can-Am series in North America . |