Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 2 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 3 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 4 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 5 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 6 | Behind they heard the death screams of the abandoned mules , and their steeds accelerated even more whilst the grey ghosts of Murtach 's wolves darted beside them at an impossible speed . |
| 7 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 8 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 9 | Laura shared rooms in the small terraced house with Alice Cox , a young lady who worked with her at a local Post Office . |
| 10 | This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man . |
| 11 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 12 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 13 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 14 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 15 | Somebody thought of it at an editorial conference , and Muggins here had to ring round all these celebrities to get comments . |
| 16 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 17 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 18 | She looked round her at the luxurious suite and shuddered . |
| 19 | That 's the man he is , ’ said Adam abruptly , and strode before them at a furious pace towards the guest-house , pursued by the pain he could not outdistance . |
| 20 | He looked around him at the other producers and researchers . |
| 21 | Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there . |
| 22 | Kate looked around her at the busy incident room . |
| 23 | After opening nights at Blackpool , she would snub John ; when he waited for her at the front entrance with their car and chauffeur she would deliberately slip out of the Stage Door and go home by tram . |
| 24 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 25 | I see now we 've got lots to do this morning , you 're going to need to ignore what 's going on behind me , ah , it 's not happening , right , as I said to you at the very beginning of September I 'm the star , so you pay attention to me . |
| 26 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 27 | The Frenchman sat opposite me at the large farmhouse table chatting away for all he was worth and after the meal he puffed away at his pipe as if he had n't a care in the world . |
| 28 | Frank Cole of the Daily Telegraph wrote of Chapman : ‘ If you sat near him at a big match … you realized the intense earnestness of the man . |
| 29 | The dynamics of the energy cascade and dissipation may be supposed to be governed by the energy per unit time ( per unit mass ) supplied to it at the large eddy ( low wavenumber ) end . |
| 30 | Loneliness stole across him at the strangest times . |