Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived at the station in good time and chained my travel-bag to the luggage rack . |
| 2 | I arrived at the station in good time for the train but I did n't have to wait more than three or four minutes and I was in London at ten to eleven . |
| 3 | I arrived at the House in time to be greeted by the sight of Alan Clark , the maverick right wing MP for Plymouth Sutton , rushing out of Westminster Hall shouting at the top of his voice , ‘ She 's won , she 's won . ’ |
| 4 | Nor can I look at the way in which this view of faith and reason has influenced contemporary Christian thinking , both mainstream and among the evangelical or fundamentalist groups where it is most in evidence . |
| 5 | I looked at the bottle in the bag . |
| 6 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 7 | and er I looked at the advert in the paper and they go to er , where they make those , wines and |
| 8 | Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that . |
| 9 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 10 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 11 | She trembled at the passion in his voice , her whole being coming alive just for him . |
| 12 | The same kind of escape ( or enlargement , if you look at the process in a favourable light ) is allowed for in a discussion of half a century ago in which the thesis that all novels contributed to a sense of escape from the artificial complexities of civilisation was turned to a commercial purpose . |
| 13 | Since she was not particularly enamoured of Madame de Montijo it is little wonder that she arrived at the Cathedral in a state of high discontent . |
| 14 | She glanced at the tower in the shadow , and dismissed it . |
| 15 | She glanced at the paper in her hand . |
| 16 | You stare at the gear in the drawer , a glow in your belly spreading through you . |
| 17 | First she called at the flat in the rue du Bateau and made a telephone call . |
| 18 | She stared at the warrior in front of her ; his helmet was intricately engraved , with sweeping lines and curves that reminded her briefly of Jake 's cup . |
| 19 | Idiotically she stared at the receiver in her hands and then dropped it back on its hook . |
| 20 | She looked at the look in his eyes and swung the belt like an axe . |
| 21 | She looked at the cauliflower in her hand . |
| 22 | ‘ You still maintain you are not the woman with whom Garry is having an affair ? ’ he asked , and she shivered at the threat in his quiet voice . |
| 23 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 24 | She scrabbled at the door in one last and futile effort to unlock the door , but Dermot pulled her back . |
| 25 | She kicked at the hay in a burst of frustration . |
| 26 | When you retire , you see at the moment in your job you will know how you cope with the job so if the job 's in your , round your house or if the job 's ins in , in your work . |
| 27 | and anyway she said that whoever the girl is , she works at the school in the day and she works at the erm |
| 28 | We gazed at the figure in the utmost fascination . |
| 29 | We arrived at the station in time but where was Tumbleweed ? |
| 30 | When we arrived at the house in the forest , we ran to the underground rooms . |