Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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1 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
2 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
3 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
4 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |
5 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
6 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
7 | James was full of praise for the medical teams who helped him both at the scene and at Coleraine hospital . |
8 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
9 | Kenny Clark flung himself forward at the ball , only to see his efforts strike the foot of the post , but Julio Berazi was on hand to stab home and collect his fourth goal of the season . |
10 | He told her so at the very end . |
11 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
12 | As he breasted the deck level Delaney ducked back , threw himself aside at the sight of the figure sprawled on the ground . |
13 | Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall . |
14 | He picked up the book he was reading , and threw it violently at the rat . |
15 | He threw it hard at the Dodger , but missed and hit Charley Bates , who started to shout with fear . |
16 | That 's how it seems in memory ; and we each apprehended it subcutaneously at the time , il me semble . |
17 | You know they joined it right at the beginning , they , they 're the ones where the momentum 's come from erm they 're the ones asking the rich peasants to join them , the middle peasants and they 're the ones leading the revolution , th they are the riff-raff if you , you know , want to take one view erm they have n't got anything to lose because of their position er er er er as erm a rich peasant may say , you know , what is there to keep me from joining yo you people have neither tile over your heads nor speck of land under your feet , and it 's true they have got nothing to lose but these are the ones that are pushing the ideas forward and forming the associations . |
18 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
19 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
20 | This and his aristocratic connections served him well at the Restoration . |
21 | So no I think er we all stuck it together at the start , not really knowing where it was gon na lead us . |
22 | Nutty flung herself blindly at the opposition . |
23 | In the decade since Mr McGuinness professed to have turned his back on the IRA and to have become a Sinn Fein politician , more than 40 witnesses and statements placed him firmly at the scene of violent incidents — and at the heart of the IRA 's decision-making process . |
24 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
25 | He was a small man and it looked as if his rifle was much too heavy for him as he waved it threateningly at the crowd inside the camp . |
26 | She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist . |
27 | I think that , too , must have been part of an identity check , particularly as she repeated it again at the end . " |
28 | He then only needed a pitching-wedge and he hit it straight at the pin to about 18 feet or so . |
29 | At the 13th , a big sloping green , he studied my putt and said : ‘ Ah now , it 's a canny putt , son , but let me see … yes , hit it straight at the pin . ’ |
30 | We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north . |