Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 2 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 3 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 4 | The momentary confusion it caused in their reaction , meant that Satan and Baal missed their swiftly moving target by inches , as they found themselves snapping at empty air in mid-leap . |
| 5 | I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was . |
| 6 | In this particular interview irony was continuously deployed against almost any remark other boys made which hinted at any involvement with the text . |
| 7 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 8 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 9 | R. McNeil Alexander of Cambridge University learnt what happens at that speed : the accelerations and slowdowns fluctuate too wildly , and the changes in gravitational energy diminish . |
| 10 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 11 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 12 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 13 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 14 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 15 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 16 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 17 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 18 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 19 | So how did I arrive at this mix ? |
| 20 | ‘ When and why did you arrive at that conclusion ? ’ she queried quietly . |
| 21 | What other things did you do at this school ? |
| 22 | So what did you do at this farm today then ? |
| 23 | How long did you work at that place for , then ? |
| 24 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
| 25 | Did you did you fight at that time then ? |
| 26 | Well what we did we stopped at this track and we turned round and we went to there was like a twenty foot straight yeah , and there 's like and everybody 's sort of like going , no , not that . |
| 27 | And what did one wear at these parish functions ? |
| 28 | Did anybody ring at all Andy ? |
| 29 | ‘ So what did they do at these meetings ? ’ |
| 30 | Why did they buy at that time ? |