Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps . |
| 2 | Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ? |
| 3 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had fled at the news of my coming . |
| 5 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |
| 6 | When she came in she stood looking at the figure stretched out on the floor . |
| 7 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 8 | It 's a week away she got washing at the moment . |
| 9 | Anyway she 'd knocked at the door and er , I said to her oh I do n't have to buy anything and she said no , no and erm |
| 10 | She was right , of course ; but as I cycled the short distance home I kept worrying at the problem , juggling the pieces frustratingly in my mind , and making no sense at all . |
| 11 | Later he came to work at the house which was his first entry into Local Government . |
| 12 | Frantically he began tearing at the small buttons that ran from her waist to the collar of her dark blouse . |
| 13 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 14 | Had Andrew found out what had happened at the flat ? |
| 15 | He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up . |
| 16 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 17 | She did not know exactly how she had arrived at the last overwhelming conviction , only that she had . |
| 18 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 19 | Yeah , folk here just never been out since New Year , then she had to work at the hospital Tuesday , well Bradley said if you do n't feel fit enough phone up and we 'll send a nurse to you I said you 're bloody mental , you ask for everything you get , I said instead of phoning the nurse in , ah but I think Alison told me they both need a good , good bloody feed they do |
| 20 | Then she started laughing at the top of her voice . |
| 21 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 22 | It was then we found out who oc , who was the occupant of that flat then we started to look at the connection between and . |
| 23 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 24 | Clumsily he began to tug at the heavy gold signet ring on one of his fingers . |
| 25 | Then he began to hack at the door-frame . |
| 26 | Christopher Taylor blinked back tears as he described how he had arrived at the hospital to find his son , seven-week-old Liam , had suffered a mysterious collapse . |
| 27 | She was about to tell him to be careful , but then she remembered how he had laughed at the idea that Gazzer could be dangerous , so she kept her mouth shut . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 29 | The ‘ Penis Landscape ’ controversy fell conveniently at a time when something had to give at the ailing NME . |
| 30 | Of course there was the occasional hiccup , such as when they 'd arrived at the nightclub to see a particularly gorgeous girl whom the Press had linked with Ace in the past . |