Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 2 | The coach wrenched forwards , the spurred boot of the trooper next them stabbed at his horse 's side , blood spurted and red drops hit the window . |
| 3 | For example , a survey of 1,800 working women in France might show that 38% read at least one magazine weekly , and a similar survey in West Germany of 940 working women showed that 47% of them read at least one magazine weekly . |
| 4 | Perhaps Isabelle had n't wanted them found at all , had intended her secret , whatever it was , to die with her . |
| 5 | Waist exercise 1 : keep your legs apart and raise both arms above your head , keeping them bent at 90° . |
| 6 | Two of them knelt at her casement , with muskets at the side ! |
| 7 | Two of them knelt at her casement , with muskets their side . |
| 8 | I believe some of them visited at first , but it gradually dwindled — even Sonia and Paul Mason , whom she was very friendly with , stopped visiting . |
| 9 | They stood quietly in the light rain , and more than half of them sucked at their ice creams . |
| 10 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 11 | The instructors were all trained in the UK and could not have been more helpful when I asked at very short notice whether I could fly their Archer for £34 . |
| 12 | She lied to me , though , when I asked at about the age of eight what she 'd done : she said she 'd worked in an office , done clerical work . |
| 13 | I asked at last . |
| 14 | Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’ |
| 15 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 16 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 17 | Tha that 's the answer to the general question I asked at what the poem' about . |
| 18 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 19 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 20 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 21 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |
| 22 | We climbed aboard the transport and as we moved away in convoy I gazed at Francoise from the back of the truck . |
| 23 | Cast your mind back to my description of the girl in the coffee bar , the one I gazed at earlier on in this long night , the coldest night of the year . |
| 24 | I gazed at her for a long time , slowly enraptured . |
| 25 | I gazed at my father for a moment , touched his forehead slightly , then withdrew my hand . |
| 26 | I gazed at her with admiration . |
| 27 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 28 | Crossing again to the fireplace , I gazed at it with awe , and had I been of a religious bent I would have fallen on my knees and prayed that the water would meet Nigel 's requirements so that on winter evenings , when we were doing our Darby and Joan bit , we could sit and worship the spirit of the fire , the hearth , the very essence of our home . |
| 29 | I felt really emotional as I gazed at her , realising how fast my pretty little girl was growing up . |
| 30 | I gazed at Teds and my friend Pam 's cousin Malcolm who had a Tony Curtis and a bootlace tie . |