Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately it was not a very good lute , as the assistant in the music shop to which he tried to sell it pointed out at — unnecessarily — great length . |
| 2 | Moore 's start in athletics came relatively late when he was 14 : ‘ One of the PE teachers at school had a son at Birchfield and , after he 'd seen me jumping well at school , he said , ‘ Why do n't you come down ? ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 4 | He was wondering whether the slaves who had been shipped to America had looked like this , when he felt his mother 's gentle touch on his shoulder and turned to find her smiling fondly at him . |
| 5 | As he turned to leave he looked again at Lofty . |
| 6 | As he turned to leave he smiled evily at Yanto . |
| 7 | He had caught her looking sharply at him when she thought he would n't notice . |
| 8 | A young doctor , making an emergency call in Bal Lane , had seen him trudging home at 2.30 in the morning , looking like a drowned rat . |
| 9 | Her mother had told her to bring back at least one load before it got dark , and it would be much more fun if I went with her . |
| 10 | When the maid had gone he looked back at Virginia 's woe-begone face , aware of something else which he had n't seen before . |