Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league .
2 A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ .
3 Tony Coton apparently embraced him at the end and gave him soime words of encouragement .
4 Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues .
5 She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house .
6 He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat .
7 Yes , I just saw you at the crossroads you see
8 The Collective State Presidency , after several abortive attempts to meet , also finally endorsed it at the end of a 14-hour session on July 12 ( again not attended by Drnovsek ) , but imposed new demands and deadlines .
9 Daniel Marsh usually met him at the station , but today Nahum was early .
10 At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there .
11 For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week .
12 Once again a very enjoyable evening , erm , I pushed into something that er , I do n't think she really wanted to do initially , but she thoroughly enjoyed it at the end .
13 They nearly blew it at the start of the second half too as Brighton closed in for the kill .
14 They probably did it at the policeman 's ball .
15 ‘ My own family was pretty undistinguished , and Stephen had at any rate a respectable reputation in his own field — though I probably overvalued it at the time .
16 Volker Rath , the German public prosecutor , tactfully said nothing at the time but later announced that Germany was suspending proceedings against the two Libyans for lack of evidence .
17 ‘ You probably said it at the end of the 1960s . ’
18 And you probably had it at the time .
19 Although Phil had been slightly reserved in his manner towards her ( Nancy ) , she knew that that was his way and she was enjoying the company of that wiry , small-boned , gently spoken citizen from Sacramento who almost invariably found himself at the back of every queue that ever formed itself .
20 Benedict 's pulse began to beat in his throat , and he fought vainly against that familiar rush of heat to his blood that invariably engulfed him at the sight of her .
21 It was also important to think what she should wear , for if any of the Governors who had interviewed her only three months ago saw her at the service they would know why she was there .
22 Rogers and Brett immediately flanked him at the foot of the steps and walked with him as he shook hands with each member of the Zimbalan mission in turn .
23 There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe .
24 Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 .
25 He drew on his cigar carefully , then waved it at the major .
26 She once again passed Drew in the street at about 5.10 and then saw him at the theatre at 6.30 , when he came into her dressing room to ask if his make-up was correct .
27 As it happened , Central almost blew it at the end .
28 This may seem the predictable conclusion to a scenario involving , as unions and Opposition politicians indeed presented it at the start , the injection of a ‘ private sector hatchet man ’ at the top of a highly sensitive public sector organisation .
29 One inmate then aimed it at the perimeter fence of trouble-torn Lindholme jail , Doncaster , as other prisoners pelted warders with bricks .
30 But not out yet , his savaged leg : and he had to turn — the door opened in on him — and Anton , sprung as a cat ; this opening , what he had sought , again flung himself at the foreman , who , caught by surprise , new horror , staggered back so that both of them , locked as one , a horrific beast , fell out against the far wall , the urinal , where : so long ago , as aeons past , Parker had first made his move .
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