Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [noun pl] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He showed them into the lift , shaking hands with them both , and as Catherine turned away from him to press the lift button , he suddenly raised his eyebrows at McLeish in amusement at his own response to her . |
| 2 | When Smith finally resumed his studies at Oxford he managed to compress his delayed undergraduate career into just 18 months , during which short time he won the university 's most prestigious classics prize and gained first class honours in both classics and mathematics . |
| 3 | When our daughter Heather was born , we were a little apprehensive about Penny and the baby , but one incident really put our minds at rest . |
| 4 | The Manton twoyear-old simply pulverised his opponents at York , sprinting six lengths clear of Sinners Reprieve and Broctune Gold ( winner since ) in scintillating style . |
| 5 | The Manton twoyear-old simply pulverised his opponents at York , sprinting six lengths clear of Sinners Reprieve and Broctune Gold ( winner since ) in scintillating style . |
| 6 | The Manton twoyear-old simply pulverised his opponents at York , sprinting six lengths clear of Sinners Reprieve and Broctune Gold ( winner since ) in scintillating style . |
| 7 | The girls I spoke to rarely discussed their problems at school with their parents . |
| 8 | Naturally , there were many exceptions to this dark picture — parents who doted on their children , and who played with them ; they were a minority , for most of the upper and middle classes rarely had their children at home . |
| 9 | Gooch was so disillusioned by his last full tour to India that he barely unpacked his bags at home in Essex at the end of it before joining the first rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 10 | Two days before the flight I again telephoned my friends at Membray and received an informal briefing on Newbury along with the number for the race-course . |
| 11 | The last train going westwards disgorged its passengers at Queensway and Notting Hill Gate , five only at Shepherd 's Bush and one lonely traveller at White City . |
| 12 | His sister Elizabeth remembered that as a child he half closed his eyes at meal times as he sat with his family . |