Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 2 | He paid her a small allowance , as she , as a married woman , was no longer eligible for the grant that had supported her at university . |
| 3 | ‘ This is quite delicious , ’ she remarked to her host , and when he looked over at her quite affably , with no sign of the fury that had enveloped him at lunchtime , she felt that she could , and should , bring the matter into the open . |
| 4 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |