Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that her son was a great friend of the paraquat-wielding monk I had seen at the monastery farm near Roscrea . |
| 2 | This particular America 's cup bears no comparison to the trophy they failed to capture at The Belfry . |
| 3 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 4 | Instead , her stubborn mind persisted in remembering the unexpectedly lighter side he had shown at the inn . |
| 5 | His heart danced with pleasure in his chest and all the fear he had experienced at the station turned to joy . |
| 6 | One question I did ask at the Fire and Public Protection Committees what happens when you do n't , when we bring in a unity authority status . |
| 7 | She remembered again the scene she had recalled at the clinic . |
| 8 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 9 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 10 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 11 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 12 | For the first two minutes Charlie defended himself well , using the ropes and the corner as he ducked and dived , remembering every skill he had learned at the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 13 | He spoke English with a Texan drawl he had acquired at the University of Austin . |
| 14 | He looked up quickly and there , half silhouetted in the twilight , stood the wiry , curly-haired boy he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 15 | Lydia had rung in to say she was chasing a story in the Lake District , though everyone knew that what she was really chasing was the ravaged-looking thriller writer she had met at the launch of his last book and slept with the very same night . |
| 16 | It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it . |
| 17 | In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up . |
| 18 | Mona had recovered from whatever embarrassment she had felt at the Eliot knife becoming common knowledge , and said crisply : ‘ I ca n't believe that 's true about Pascoe , Alex . ’ |
| 19 | I sought clarification on a point he had made at the press conference . |
| 20 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 21 | The palm wine he 'd drunk at the evening banquet must have driven all sense from him … his first taste . |
| 22 | For a while she lay staring at the wall . |
| 23 | So cos apparently , while he was on the phone she came knocking at the door then |
| 24 | She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together . |
| 25 | It was a late start because of the poor education he 'd received at the local Protestant school . |
| 26 | It was probably that blow on the head he had received at the end of the spring term . |
| 27 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 28 | Awake , like this , the animal seemed perfectly normal , not at all like the crazed , somersaulting creature I had seen at the cottage . |
| 29 | Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty-two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter . |
| 30 | Leaning against a recumbent Henry Moore , a group of English Sloanes , lanky people , all wearing old men 's panama hats regardless of sex , shared out the single bottle of champagne they had bought at the Duty Free and laughed loudly . |