Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
| 2 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 3 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
| 4 | The chances are that , if you were all given a lot of time to write each essay without your notes and you just sat at a desk and had about three hours on each question , you 'd all do very well . |
| 5 | She also helped at a Brownie Pack and was a volunteer mini-bus driver for children with special needs . |
| 6 | She never looked at a woman 's magazine after that , though she saw from their covers , displayed beside the supermarket till , that they had not changed , but went on churning out the same old stuff . |
| 7 | We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’ |
| 8 | We finally arrived at an event of which the adult Sylvia had no recollection whatsoever , but which to the baby must have been dramatically traumatic . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , we originally started at a place outside o ’ town , called Glencogh . |
| 10 | At the meeting I reported on the position of the gathering health service dispute and we then looked at a number of other pay issues . |
| 11 | He finally arrived at a compromise with her , which was that he could have three independent , non-civil servant , advisers . |
| 12 | He repeats one he once told at an audition for a right-on theatre company . |
| 13 | In reflection , Nicholson remembers that apart from the task of writing a film about a new subject on which there was very little in the way of written research material , it also came at a time when he was going through his divorce . |
| 14 | He also hinted at a release of a new machine next year . |
| 15 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 16 | He had an idea that he would find himself another flat , and he actually called at a number of agencies in the Bayswater area and asked for their lists . |