Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 2 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 3 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 4 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 5 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 6 | When he got there , he pulled an enormous bell-mouthed gun — I imagine it was a blunder-buss — from his belt and levelled it at the monster . |
| 7 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 8 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 9 | A stout butler led Alexandra across a hall floored in gleaming yellow wood and lined with large dark paintings , and announced her at the drawing-room door . |
| 10 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 11 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 12 | Alex attended a similar establishment for boys ten miles away and visited her at every weekend exeat . |
| 13 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 14 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 15 | He took the kettle from its hook above the fire and filled it at the sink . |
| 16 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 17 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 18 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
| 19 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 20 | As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder . |
| 21 | John found a torch and shone it at the engine cowling . |
| 22 | Willie climbed out of bed and joined him at the window . |
| 23 | She walked over and joined him at the table . |
| 24 | He crawled out of the trench and joined me at the gun . |
| 25 | ‘ So what I did was , I got some stones and threw them at the driver . ’ |
| 26 | Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage . |
| 27 | Then Nour turned and saw us , and he leapt from his chair and took a cup of coffee ready-poured and threw it at the cat , who was near my foot , so that my foot was covered in coffee and the cat fled . |
| 28 | He took the grenade from his pocket , unleased the pin and threw it at the base of the double gates . |
| 29 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 30 | Stein came along , smelt the drink , refused to listen to Rough 's explanation , picked up the glass and threw it at the keeper and marched off . |