Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dorset , ’ someone had said at a recent dinner . |
| 2 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 3 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 4 | Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation . |
| 5 | Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot . |
| 6 | For by now we had arrived at a big army hut by the side of the road . |
| 7 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 8 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |