Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun] at [art] " 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 | One day before we had moved up there I was at the melin for a few days with an actress friend from London when I announced my attendance at a jumble sale that afternoon . |
| 3 | When I was out on the road I mean before I came into training I was so I laid my cards at the table at this point in time to say yes I need to sell insurance erm and I always remember particular broker who you go in and and he 's saying well so how many of these particular products would you sell over the next year and he said oh twenty five and you go in great , guy 's promised to sell twenty five domestic contents policies over the next year . |
| 4 | I made my entry at the end of the song . |
| 5 | First , cavorting lunatic- savant features editor , James Brown , snogged my mate at a party . |
| 6 | I discharged my responsibility at the court , and that is that . |
| 7 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Being used for draught work until quite recently , the French animals retained their size at a time when British cattle were deliberately bred smaller and more short-legged , and these bigger , muscular , fast-growing and later maturing French types now meet today 's demands for lean ‘ supermarket ’ meat cuts . |
| 10 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 11 | When Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 9 November 1856 ) tried its hand at a garotting song , it summed up the feeling well enough : |
| 12 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 13 | It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Taking to Water ( July ) , in which Jeannette Kupfermann described her stay at a thalassotherapy centre , had a huge response . |
| 17 | She jerked her head at the boy and he went over and turned the knob . |
| 18 | She jerked her chin at the box of letters . |
| 19 | Newton Aycliffe 's Christine Brunskill also avenged her defeat at the hands of Middlesbrpugh and Cleveland Harrier Marie Stansmore . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | It is almost always difficult to discover how these men built their fortunes at the beginning , because they leave no significant mark in the records until they have already made some mark in society . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They trio were allegedly caught with a booby-trap bomb when police stopped their car at a checkpoint at Upper Cairncaslte Road , Larne on April 18 last year . |
| 26 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 27 | The Fatherland Front ( the former umbrella organization of the BCP and the BZNS ) changed its name at an extraordinary congress on March 30-April 1 , 1990 , to the Fatherland Union in an attempt to avoid the " front-line sound " of its name . |
| 28 | Thresher insiders believe the company changed its decision at the last minute after TODAY 's revelations yesterday . |
| 29 | She found her husband at the foot of the bed cropuching over a wooden box into which the pipe had been inserted . |
| 30 | In the case of' Playne and Smith , they concentrated their efforts at a single site , Dunkirk , modernising it and installing a steam engine and power-looms . |