Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes . |
| 2 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 3 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 4 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 5 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 6 | As Calum Davidson of Highlands & Islands Enterprise put it at a recent Open Forum conference , ‘ In the south of Scotland , in Silicon Glen , the Scottish workforce use their skills to produce IT equipment for their world . |
| 7 | If his remarkable strategic instinct convinced him at an early stage that it would be necessary to negotiate with the FLN , his obvious repugnance at the process caused major problems . |
| 8 | There is still a skid mark from one end of the runway to where the ‘ Fury left it at the other end . |
| 9 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 10 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 11 | Behind her Rose followed her at a wheezing trot , keeping up with her , until she suddenly mastered the antiquated machine , and sped away , feeling like a Swiss mountaineer with his St Bernard dog , setting off on his errand of mercy . |
| 12 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |