Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 2 | None of the nurses spoke to me , nothing , till 2 o'clock that afternoon , which I 'd had her at 7.30 in the morning … |
| 3 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 4 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 5 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 6 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 7 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 8 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 9 | She did n't like immobility , she did n't like being on her own , and she did n't like the fact that the wallet still had n't been given back to her , not when she 'd nicked it at great personal risk . |
| 10 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 11 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 12 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 13 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 14 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 15 | Unless you offer positive alternatives you do more harm than if you had done nothing at all . |
| 16 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 17 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 18 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 19 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 20 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 21 | Medieval town planners , as many cities further north bear witness , would have provided a more sensible plan if they had provided one at all . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 23 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 24 | After he 'd left her at Wild Tor , they would never see each other again . |
| 25 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 26 | Until now it had meant nothing at all , but now she really knew what it meant . |
| 27 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 28 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 29 | If he had drunk anything at all , it had left him . |
| 30 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |