Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 2 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 3 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 4 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll run down the hill and see if Jim Wilson 's got anything at the ship 's chandler , ’ I said to Miss Sowerby . |
| 6 | Tate left a number of finished canvases which had never been shown and Edwin decided to release them at the rate of one a year through Ismay Gorton 's , the London gallery which handles his work . |
| 7 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 8 | Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time . |
| 9 | To do nothing might be worse — Allan had greeted them at the house with the news ( fresh from the great oven of rumour , the widow Duff 's at Ballinluig ) that a file of English soldiers had ridden out from Perth . |
| 10 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 11 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |
| 12 | Later , when it was time to take Eddie back to school , Louise had kissed him at the gate and his father had walked up to the main door with him . |