Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices .
4 After he 'd left her at Wild Tor , they would never see each other again .
5 Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked .
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