Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | He picked up the book he was reading , and threw it violently at the rat . |
| 10 | Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall . |
| 11 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
| 12 | The Repo Men armed their holy water-pistols and angled them down at the devil-made-flesh . |
| 13 | She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist . |
| 14 | No you just marked it down and cleared it up at the end of the year . |
| 15 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 16 | As Bernice watched , horrified , Bishop produced a large handgun from beneath his robes and aimed it squarely at the Doctor 's head . |
| 17 | She has found his hands for him , and fitted them freshly at the wrists |
| 18 | Peter took her there and picked her up at the end of the day . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position . |
| 21 | 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 . |