Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction .
2 A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families .
3 Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive .
4 Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared .
5 Danger of choking stopped him at that point .
6 There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence .
7 Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours .
8 A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed .
9 Paul accompanied me at some services .
10 Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot .
11 Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum .
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