Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun pl] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In fact some of them swore that they saw a phantom train roaring into or out of Box Hill Tunnel ; of course the sceptics laughed their heads off at such a far-fetched tale but the more psychic were inclined to accept the men 's story .
2 I cried my eyes out at that !
3 Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes .
4 And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa .
5 But these four stations on the African continent aimed their programmes exclusively at white settler communities ; not until the Second World War was wireless broadcasting for Africans established .
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