Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got nicked for it at Low Newton . |
| 2 | And was it only yesterday when she 'd worked beside him at the barbecue while becoming vitally conscious of the attraction that made her feel drawn towards him ? |
| 3 | She had written to them at once after Mr Renfrew 's visit , encompassing them in the great outpouring of gratitude that had flooded her , and received from her father in reply a letter that had shocked her and alarmed her . |
| 4 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 5 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |
| 6 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
| 7 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 8 | They had talked about it at length over dinner . |
| 9 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 10 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
| 11 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 12 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 13 | He always thanked anyone who did , she noticed , and felt a return of the respect he had inspired in her at their first meeting . |
| 14 | But the desire and the longing in his eyes had given her strength , and he had moved to her at once , so that she had known , once and for all , that there could never be anything strained or awkward between them . |
| 15 | It was patently clear to all that Samuel Pipkin could have poisoned the water after he had drunk from it , if indeed he had drunk from it at all . |
| 16 | And the King believed what they said , and was wroth against the Cid , having no love towards him because of the oath which he had pressed upon him at Burgos concerning the death of King Don Sancho his brother . |
| 17 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
| 18 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 19 | He had happened upon me at the crucial moment : I had little idea of who I was or what I was entitled to from life , let alone what it behoved me to contribute . |
| 20 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |