Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her fear she caught her breath at such beauty . |
| 2 | After the war , when he was out of the army , he tried his hand at several things , and they were all pretty much a disaster . |
| 3 | When he tried his hand at another murder and the proposed victim turned out to be a young Anglo-Prussian only just arrived in Vienna , it seemed likely you were the man . |
| 4 | Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’ |
| 5 | The French shared their reluctance at this time to sink their identities in a United States of Europe . |
| 6 | He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together . |
| 7 | Not all Jewish merchants in Tangier would made their fortune at any price , however . |
| 8 | The car made its debut at that year 's Monaco Grand Prix with Cliff Allison ( GB ) and Graham Hill ( GB ) behind the wheel of the two entered cars . |
| 9 | No Greek writer travelled to Rome , and no Greek historian told her history at any length . |
| 10 | The schools dominated in the loose and the youth side showed their inexperience at this type of play . |
| 11 | Let us begin our analysis of that society , which reached its apogee at this period , with the appearance of the clothes its members wore , the interiors which surrounded them . |
| 12 | Bond he no longer has the Princess Di haircut by the way reorganised his team at half time , pushing former Quaker Alan Walsh further forward , but Quakers had the perfect answer . |
| 13 | Martin Postle splices detail and generalisation , so that he can move deftly from a meticulous account of Reynolds ' studio practice to the perceptive observation that ‘ it was not Reynolds ’ style but his lack of style which characterised his work at this time as sitters danced , flirted , embroidered , sacrificed to pagan deities , or merely meditated , in the manner of Guido Reni , Titian , Van Dyck or even Michelangelo ’ . |
| 14 | But League secretary David Dent told Barnet chairman Robert Woolfson : ‘ The Football League Board considered your request at some length but are unable to accept your proposals . |