Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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1 | The two whippets that accompanied him even at the front and the outsize shako of the Death 's Head Hussars he usually wore rounded out the picture . |
2 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
3 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
4 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
5 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
6 | In 1912 Walter Long accepted the phrase " the new style " and flung it back at the government : " The New Style consists in the cynical violation of the honourable traditions of public life . |
7 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
8 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
9 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
10 | He picked up the book he was reading , and threw it violently at the rat . |
11 | Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall . |
12 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
13 | The Repo Men armed their holy water-pistols and angled them down at the devil-made-flesh . |
14 | She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist . |
15 | No you just marked it down and cleared it up at the end of the year . |
16 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
17 | As Bernice watched , horrified , Bishop produced a large handgun from beneath his robes and aimed it squarely at the Doctor 's head . |
18 | She has found his hands for him , and fitted them freshly at the wrists |
19 | Reaching the foot of the stairs , he saw movement off to his right along the corridor , but ignored it and launched himself bodily at the door six feet to his left marked CONTROL . |
20 | Peter took her there and picked her up at the end of the day . |
21 | With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late ! |
22 | With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position . |
23 | She helped him to the kitchen , as that seemed to be the best place for him for the moment , and sat him down at the kitchen table while she went and got a towel . |