Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sounded immensely sad as he spoke , and I wondered if the girl had meant more to him than being merely a casual friend , but I did not like to ask and Maggovertski was clearly disinclined to explain more , so I just stared down at the aerial chart , and I suddenly noticed , in an otherwise empty space beneath an intersection of two air corridors , the tiny island of Murder Cay . |
| 2 | When I finally arrived back at the Bible Room , headvoice was giving me unmerciful stick : |
| 3 | There is also a continuing technological backwardness I think I , I probably mentioned right at the outset that in nineteen fifty India had six times as many tractors per acre in cultivation as China did . |
| 4 | Boxers , footballers and athletes who eventually broke through at the highest level , in championships in football league , in international meetings , made it not so much in spite of their blackness but because of it . |
| 5 | She only danced once at the Bolshoi Theatre last year . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's all cold , ’ she complains , then two minutes later she 's back eating it like she just sat down at the table . |
| 7 | Who else showed up at the shelter ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You never said so at the time , ’ she mutters . |
| 9 | When the ruler first came in contact with Millie 's knuckles she actually cried back at the startled sister , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 10 | Well we just thought somewhere at the back where we could pin them against the wall . |
| 11 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 12 | The variations in their prosperity depended often on how far the developing cloth trade affected individual places ; some towns undoubtedly grew , particularly in the early sixteenth century , but they often did so at the expense of others rather than through a serious movement of population from the countryside , although some such drift occurred . |
| 13 | I think their suggestion was that they had to go via Norwood Gardens because they then turned right at the in and went up into the middle of and it was to get them on to that line that they had to go through . |
| 14 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 15 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 16 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 17 | Now he hardly glanced up at the dressing-gowned figure standing at the door . |
| 18 | It always came up at the very worst of times . |
| 19 | It practically went in at the nose . |
| 20 | It often looked askance at the mainland . |
| 21 | He then stared up at the blue sky . |
| 22 | He never stopped in at the Susweca for refreshment after he was finished for the day . |
| 23 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |