Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 2 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 3 | Ken met me at the entrance and guided me into a side room . |
| 4 | One of the lads asked me at a dance how I had earned my living before I had got married . |
| 5 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 6 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 7 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 8 | When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance . |
| 9 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 10 | The ruling DEMOS coalition dissolved itself at a meeting on Dec. 30 , and called for early elections in April or May 1992 . |
| 11 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 12 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 13 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 14 | In the 1470s the closest parallel is to be found in the north midlands , where Hastings ' possession of the key duchy of Lancaster offices put him at the head of the royal connection in the region . |
| 15 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 16 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 17 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
| 18 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 19 | In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market . |
| 20 | Lillee met him at the gate and escorted him to the middle . |
| 21 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 22 | McCoist flung himself at the ball and beat Lukic with a wonderful diving header . |
| 23 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 24 | For a further four years , Sukarno found himself at the centre of a political maelstrom of which the outcome seemed obscure . |
| 25 | Cornelius found himself at a door . |
| 26 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
| 27 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 28 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 30 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |