Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 2 | His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession . |
| 3 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 4 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 5 | He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree . |
| 6 | Another sharp blast of heavy rain threw itself at the windowpanes of her flat , and brought Leith , startled , out of the brown study she had fallen into . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 9 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 10 | A small , brown-haired woman met him at the door , surrounded by a group of noisy , dirty children who eyed Corbett boldly , then ran to hide and giggle behind their mother 's skirts . |
| 11 | My first school expelled me at the end of second year . |
| 12 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 13 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 14 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 15 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |