Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 2 | The other soldiers had wives and families to go to , but I felt slightly at a loss away from the TA . |
| 3 | I felt rather at a loss . |
| 4 | His face looked lost and anxious and somehow sad , like someone left behind at a railway station . |
| 5 | After a while I sat down at a pavement café table and rather shamefacedly clapped my hands , but produced such a ladylike patter that no one heard me . |
| 6 | Last summer I was down in London on business and … er … it happened that , by chance … through some friends , I ended up at a party given by … er … well , some people in Holland Park . |
| 7 | On 30 March , however , an exceptionally violent explosion occurred , blowing off the top 200 metres of the volcano , and propagating a dense eruption cloud which expanded upwards at a speed estimated to be something like 500 metres per second , finally reaching a height of thirty-eight kilometres . |
| 8 | We have setpiece debates on the European Community budget — we had one in only 90 minutes last week , which worked out at a rate of about half a billion pounds per minute of our debate . |
| 9 | White , 46 , who helped out at a holiday for the disabled near Farnham , Surrey , fondled the girls — dressed as a bunny and a baby — following the end-of-camp party . |
| 10 | She started violently at a knock on the door . |
| 11 | She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch . |
| 12 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 13 | She looked down at a letter on the table in front of her , collecting her thoughts . |
| 14 | He watched her as she went past at a walk , the black Labrador and he both gazing wistfully , their breath steaming in the cold February morning . |
| 15 | She felt suddenly at a disadvantage . |
| 16 | She scraped away at a pan in silence for a while . |
| 17 | She picked absent-mindedly at a piece of lint on one long denim-clad leg , unable for the moment to look into her friend 's probing blue eyes . |
| 18 | She picked listlessly at a plate of Sole bonne femme while Preston ate something called a Scampi provençale in a kind of nervous frenzy . |
| 19 | And I believe we met once at a Stock Exchange luncheon . " |
| 20 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 21 | ‘ Once we realised the implications of the Cattle Identification Documents ( CIDS ) necessary to hold the administration of a two-stage payment together we looked hard at a slaughter premium , ’ explained Mr Cowan . |
| 22 | It was beautiful , an antique that we picked up at a flea market in Bath . |
| 23 | We ended up at a bar near the theatre . |
| 24 | We sat down at a table and he poured me out some tea . |
| 25 | In the meantime , Sinatra 's relationship with Peter Lawford had been repaired when they met again at a dinner party given by Gary Cooper , and they behaved as though there had never been an argument . |
| 26 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 27 | They pulled out at a point not where the cost they thought was n't worth it , but they pulled out because people associate |
| 28 | On the fourth evening of their waterborne journey they tied up at a place which had thickets of hazel and birch growing near the water . |
| 29 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
| 30 | As they stared intently at a cameraman lurking on the bank , a family of mink , unnoticed peered curiously at them , from only a few metres away . |