Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 2 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 3 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 4 | I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was . |
| 5 | Down below , in the third class , James Flanagan , a Primitive Methodist minister who began his working life at seven and taught himself to read at twenty-one , preached and ‘ frequently pleaded with the God of earth and sea ’ for a safe journey . |
| 6 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 7 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 8 | Two dissident Myanma students hijacked a Myanma aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to land at U-tapao military air base in Thailand on Oct. 6 , 1989 . |
| 9 | When he led 3–1 at the mid-session interval , Hendry looked likely to run away with it , but found himself tied at 3–3 before restoring his lead in the seventh . |