Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Brownie Helper 's husband would act as chauffeur , so not being able to think of more excludes , I duly arrived at the appointed hour , to find a welcoming party of six little girls , all anxious to fetch and carry equipment . |
| 2 | On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave . |
| 3 | The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 . |
| 4 | I also looked at the painted surface . |
| 5 | ‘ Eh , gracias , eh , señor , ’ I half spat at the small man as I turned my back on him and left . |
| 6 | She barely glanced at the bright creatures . |
| 7 | She barely gazed at the other women who clustered round staring , washing forgotten in the excitement of this unexpected entertainment . |
| 8 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 9 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 10 | In Chapter 3 we looked at the ‘ politics of variation ’ in a general sense : we asked why feminists would want to study male/female differences in language , and we also looked at the anecdotal tradition of ( often sexist ) comment feminists in the field have inherited — in some cases rather uncritically . |
| 11 | We then looked at the remarkable record of capitalism in creating wealth and contrasted it with the present malaise which now seems to infect most economies of the Western world . |
| 12 | And also we think they sensibly looked at the actual provision of sites in areas which have proved popular for employment and which do not compromise environmental objectives . |
| 13 | She shot him a surprised look as they both waved at the moving minibus . |
| 14 | He also protested at the general level of unemployment in the country and issued specific demands for the reinstatement of the standing of the Panamanian security forces which had been largely disarmed and reduced to a police force by the US-backed civilian government . |
| 15 | He also worked at the naval base at Kronstadt . |
| 16 | erm At the beginning of the social services committee meeting Mr moved a resolution which he previously moved at the social services planning sub-committee which listed most of the things which are presently in the the resolution but it started the social services accept the implication of the director of social services report on the future of the department 's elderly person 's homes erm , after some minutes of debate the er Democrats asked if the Tories would remove that phrase from the resolution and then tha the Democrats , the Liberal Democrats would vote for it the Tories of course er looking gift horses in the mouth as usual , said no and the the that resolution was lost . |
| 17 | And it never did at the right |