Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 2 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 3 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 4 | But for all that he plays no part in the ancestry of my colleague , on whose behalf I was alerted at the mention of his name . |
| 5 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 6 | I was dumbfounded at the sight of his shiny blue-black hair , his long-lashed blue eyes and his brown face . |
| 7 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 8 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 9 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 10 | I was told at the Bar that in section 25 application cases hearsay evidence was regarded in some family proceedings courts as not admissible . |
| 11 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 12 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 13 | She was butchered at the wheel of the vehicle by her attacker who hung through the passenger window , repeatedly slicing her with the panga . |
| 14 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 15 | Contrary to all expectations , ten minutes later she was seated at the washbasin , and forty minutes after that she emerged from the salon feeling refreshed and certainly different . |
| 16 | Now the baby is in foster care and the mother has responded well to treatment she was given at the hospital . |
| 17 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 18 | Pedigree unknown , she was born at the height of last February 's blizzards in The Bullring — centre of London 's homeless community . |
| 19 | I knew she 'd better be told , otherwise she 'd get a bonnie fright when she was stopped at the paydesk and accused of shoplifting . |
| 20 | As it was , she was greeted at the door of the ramshackle house by a complete stranger , a young man who looked at her oddly . |
| 21 | She was educated at the Art School in Gower Street and then at Mrs Hill 's School , where she met Octavia Hill , John Ruskin , Charles Kingsley , and F. D. Maurice [ qq.v . ] . |
| 22 | It is just as well that Plainsong seemed to take to the track on her debut in the Fillies ' Maiden she was aimed at the race because owner Peter Innes was a steward at the meeting . |
| 23 | Well forgive me , the , the reason for that is , it was explained at the time if one 's going to defend the decision of where you 're going to put your roads , then you 've got in reality look at all them options ridiculous some they will be , whether they dig tunnels under the Orwell or knocking down Wordsworth Road I mean it 's all got to be looked at . |
| 24 | It was hidden at the bottom of a drawer , remember . |
| 25 | This exhibition has been sent from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York , where it was seen at the end of last year in a larger version and under the title ‘ Celebrating Calder ’ . |
| 26 | And it was done at the convent hospital , where the anaesthetist there , not only gave this gentlemen a general anaesthetic but also a spinal anaesthetic as well . |
| 27 | It was undertaken at the request of the school by John Swain and Carole Thirlaway ( from the local polytechnic ) and involved the following steps : |
| 28 | Begun as a Romanesque basilica in 1200 , it was completed at the west end in Gothic style about 1350 . |
| 29 | But we actually needed a procedure , that procedure was followed as best we could by borrowing another rule and it was achieved at the end of the day . |
| 30 | Worcester was well-positioned to fulfil this role , for it was sited at the edge of an arable area to the south and east and a pastoral zone to the north and west . |