Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
2 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
3 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
4 | I pawed at the hairy form . |
5 | I shouted at the unfortunate Harry . |
6 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
7 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
8 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
9 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
10 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
11 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
12 | One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed . |
13 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
14 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
15 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
16 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
17 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
18 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
19 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
20 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
21 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
22 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
23 | Over a hasty meal , I glanced at the Official Guide to County Meath , a gift from the manager . |
24 | I glanced at the answering machine in the corner and saw that the red light was glowing . |
25 | Once more I glanced at the large flour mill , temporarily closed , despite the addition of a new silvery turbine engine to take the place of water power . |
26 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
27 | He said I waved at the poor man like a loony . |
28 | I snarled at the inner voice . |
29 | , I was seventeen , I worked at the Flying Horse . |
30 | I started at the early age of five , and I was taught until I was ten , and all day at that . |