Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing . |
| 2 | The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer . |
| 3 | From this lengthy account the balanced reciprocity which I mentioned at the beginning becomes very clear but some of you may think that the detail is excessive . |
| 4 | On Crag Hill I stopped at the cairn to look down on Dentdale spread below me , Helms Knott , the Howgills and the distant forms of Cross Fell , Dun Fell and , facing me , the long ridge of Barbondale . |
| 5 | I stopped at the garage to fill up a can for the mower . |
| 6 | ‘ I had , ’ said Rosalind , hurrying in , ‘ but I stopped at the post-office to get a stamp for my letter and it was closed and the wretched stamp-machine was empty . |
| 7 | I stopped at the house to give my condolences to Mr and Mrs Gould . |
| 8 | When I arrived at the airport to check in , I was surprised by the amount of security , I decided they must be looking for drug traffickers . |
| 9 | After the quickest possible change , I arrived at the reception to find that David and Tessa Marchwood were already there busy greeting guests ! |
| 10 | I marvelled at the stone coloured like golden honey , the crockets and pinnacles , the needle-points aspiring to heaven , the bosses and badges blazoned in gules , azure , or … it was all very heady stuff . |
| 11 | Raising it , I glanced at the door to see if my tails had arrived . |
| 12 | And many a night I spent at The Greyhound watching Brinsley Schwarz , diligently studying Nick Lowe 's bass playing . |
| 13 | I remembered my astonishment when the first doctor I saw at the Centre read my notes and wrote down a mixture of Centaury , Gorse , Star of Bethlehem and Beech . |
| 14 | I looked at the line-up listed in the programme and at the stop-press late additions : Everything But The Girl , two of The Communards ; Harry Enfield ; The Oblivion Boys , the list went on . |
| 15 | I looked at the mess-tin containing the eggs and the meat . |
| 16 | The aim of the course is to provide advice and information but as I said at the beginning to get you talking about it . |
| 17 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |
| 18 | I see that an article I wrote at the time entitled ‘ What should we say to Germany ? ’ reflected this point of view , though with less explicitness . |
| 19 | I stayed at the Cove watching cloud shadows racing across the great limestone cliffs until the sun moved round to the west when it was time to race the old ladies back to the village for the tea and scones of Beck Hall . |
| 20 | Employing a lounge-lizard gait , he swaggered towards me as I stood at the bar waiting for my Coke . |
| 21 | ‘ So I jumped at the chance to join Celtic , a club steeped in tradition and history . |
| 22 | I signed him for Middlesbrough , and I jumped at the chance to sign him again here . |
| 23 | The only evidence which seemed at the time to offer any reliable dating was that of the coins which were of sufficient interest to the nineteenth-century antiquarians for them to be recorded , although rarely in detail . |
| 24 | A faster grower clone , which appeared at a frequency estimated to be between 1 10 -8 and 1 10 -9 , was subcloned ; the growth rate of a subclone , namely AR , was determined in comparison with Raji and RJ2.2.5 . |
| 25 | On the subject of negotiations with the government , Mandela emphasized that he himself had at no time entered into negotiations about the future of the country — thus attempting to calm black fears arising from his various meetings with government ministers and the then President P. W. Botha . |
| 26 | She no longer knew if she was happy or unhappy , cheerful or depressed , as she gazed at the infant lying in his pram , asleep in his cot , kicking on a rug before the fire . |
| 27 | She snatched at the chance to make small talk while she got her emotions strictly under control again . |
| 28 | She stopped at the graveyard to visit the dead ; but as , even alive , they would all have been strangers to her she felt intrusive . |
| 29 | She turned at the door to wave but the car was already in gear and accelerating down the drive . |
| 30 | Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , who claimed at the weekend to have uncovered a further £10 million in sweeteners above the £38 million disclosed last week , continued yesterday to press the Prime Minister for details of the tax benefits offered to BAe , and to explain why Parliament has been deceived for more than 16 months about the true cost of the sale . |