Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.

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1	Normally I would have sounded like a tongue-tied half-wit , but that evening my response appeared to hint at the inexpressible depths and nuances of my infinitely complex relationship with the city , together with a gentle rebuke to a question which was either fatuous or unanswerable .
2	My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there .
3	My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me .
4	When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed .
5	When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick , crunchy lace , the severe black camisole she wore beneath it , but he merely murmured , ‘ Punctual as always .
6	His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits .
7	They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners .
8	Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 .
9	After the death of his father , Tennyson and his family continued to live at the rectory for a further six years .
10	‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train .
11	My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B.

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