Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 2 | I I played canny at the end rather than |
| 3 | I felt embarrassed at the prospect of meeting him . |
| 4 | The only thing I saw wrong at the time was that David and Tony began not to communicate . |
| 5 | I went scarlet at the word ‘ knickers ’ . |
| 6 | I sat right at the front , my head tilted back as if for a nose-bleed , the stick of my sherbet lolly angled like a thermometer , in a quiet fever of excitement . |
| 7 | I sat late at the window , bland with rage , |
| 8 | Though sometimes interrupted by law work , I sat tight at the story , sometimes writing as much as two chapters a day . |
| 9 | ‘ Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head . |
| 10 | As he rushed onwards it lengthened and curved , until he stood at the edge of a cold volcanic cauldron , looking down at the mountain 's secret , a still , dark lake which gleamed green at the foot of the crags . |
| 11 | Indeed , so long was their duration on Earth that those species which became extinct at the end were quite unlike those evolving from the reptiles in the early Triassic . |
| 12 | Gordon Bowers , Commercial Manager , is responsible for the day to day implementation of the new systems which became operational at the end of March . |
| 13 | It was followed by flash after flash , sheets or blue light which stabbed flat at the camp . |
| 14 | Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines . |
| 15 | Corbett stopped , calming his horse which grew skittish at the sight . |
| 16 | Third in this trilogy of deaf men of remarkable achievements of this era who were mainly oralist but who respected those that used sign language was Abraham Farrar , born at Leeds , who became deaf at the age of 3 due to scarlet fever . |
| 17 | The real origins of the law centre movement are usually attributed to the publication of pamphlets by the lawyers of the Conservative and Labour parties and the individual initiative of pioneers who became impatient at the slowness of the official bodies to respond to the pressure for change . |
| 18 | I started my long walk , interspersed with running sessions to deliver the papers to Mr. Brooks , the Head Gardener at Godolphin School , who lived right at the bottom of Laverstock Road , a distance of almost a mile . |
| 19 | She gazed clear-eyed at the mountains outside the window . |
| 20 | Joan 's face paled and she gazed wide-eyed at the duchess , as if suspecting that lady had taken leave of her senses . |
| 21 | But the real on-course caring was not to return fully until she turned professional at the start of 1984 . |
| 22 | ’ She looked bleak at the recollection of those dark hours . |
| 23 | Like them , she looked dazzling at the show in Birmingham . |
| 24 | Some are busily scribbling down every word she utters , others are watching her quizzically , chewing the ends of their ballpoints , and those who looked bored at the outset are now staring vacantly out of the window or diligently chiselling their initials into the lecture-room furniture . |
| 25 | She went weak at the thought . |
| 26 | Nine children survived infancy : two sons , both subsequently knights , George , who died childless at the age of twenty-eight , and John , who settled in Kent ; and seven daughters , including Elizabeth , who married Thomas , Baron Knyvet of Escrick [ q.v. ] , and Joan , wife of John Thynne , son of the builder of Longleat . |
| 27 | Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees . |
| 28 | She felt angry at the idea being thrust on her , and more determined in her purpose of obtaining money for the drainage of the West Bog . |
| 29 | She felt sick at the thought . |
| 30 | She grew hot at the thought of his strong hands performing such intimate tasks . |