Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Dustin left to join them at 11.30 .
2 She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual .
3 A reptile of a money-lender from Poland Street offered to accommodate him at 40 per cent , '20 less than any other of the trade . ’
4 He asked if Anna had mentioned anything at all about her attacker that might prove useful to him .
5 In view of his instructions Fowler decided to leave it at that .
6 And , whereas Charles had left it at that , Michael Banks 's understudy proceeded to tell the author just how much of a massacre the star was making of his play .
7 Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt .
8 But the fact that Sarah had said it at all seemed to mean she thought they were very close friends .
9 Girfriend Zoe had told him at first that she had seen punches being exchanged betweeen the two , then that she had not , but he said she was confussed and highly distressed .
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