Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 2 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
| 3 | ‘ I said pregnancies , because I lost one at four months and another at six months . |
| 4 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 5 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 6 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 7 | And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep . |
| 8 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 9 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 10 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 11 | She composed herself at some leisure before answering . |
| 12 | She drank it at one gulp . |
| 13 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 14 | The gradient of a curve is the gradient of tangent , so we can draw a tangent where you wanted it at that place . |
| 15 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
| 16 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 17 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 18 | We saw him at Old Trafford |
| 19 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 20 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 21 | Ronni cast him a glance , as they seated themselves at opposite sides of the table . |
| 22 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 23 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 24 | Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail . |
| 25 | He did everything at breakneck speed and was insatiably sociable , always turning up when Jane was particularly busy , crashing into the room and asking jauntily : ‘ What 's everyone doing ? ’ |
| 26 | It impressed no-one at corporate management level . |
| 27 | During a visit to an airfield he clocked it at 95 mph . |