Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 3 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 4 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 5 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 6 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 7 | Their landlord visited them at the flat to recover back rent . |
| 8 | He had a two-stroke lead over playing partner Frost with two holes to play before the defending champion pipped him at the post with birdies on 17 and 18 . |
| 9 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 10 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 11 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 12 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 13 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
| 14 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 15 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 16 | ‘ Easy — a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing , General . |
| 17 | The Norwich City and Scotland striker , a figure of such unmitigated misfortune that money deserted him at the height of what ought to have been a highly lucrative and rewarding career . |
| 18 | A small , brown-haired woman met him at the door , surrounded by a group of noisy , dirty children who eyed Corbett boldly , then ran to hide and giggle behind their mother 's skirts . |
| 19 | ‘ No , his analyst told me at a party in New York . ’ |
| 20 | A dog ate him at the bus stop ! |
| 21 | The auberge owner joined me at the door and stared with contempt at the sky . |
| 22 | Although my work as CBC Production Manager kept me at a desk rather than on the production floor , I was occasionally able to produce plays . |
| 23 | The girl in the mack was scrambling again through the puddles in the dirt of the wreckers ' yard ; the invisible and soundless shots from out of frame felled her at a signal from Jean-Claude and the partisans rose from the auto hulks , their own guns blazing . |
| 24 | Inspector did you at the time , know of Lawrence ? |
| 25 | ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow . |
| 26 | ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door . |
| 27 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 28 | He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree . |
| 29 | His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession . |
| 30 | " A noble breakfast , " says George Borrow of the morning meal offered him at an inn at Bala in North Wales , " there was tea and coffee , a goodly white loaf and butter , there were a couple of eggs and two mutton chops — there was boiled and pickled salmon — fried trout also potted trout and potted shrimps . " |