Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the synchronized nature of the 1970–1 recession meant that governments found themselves simultaneously at a similar , recessionary phase of the cycle . |
| 2 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 3 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 4 | And opened them sharply at an insistent , warning buzz from her duty station . |
| 5 | He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station . |
| 6 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 7 | We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north . |
| 8 | It was n't an amused smile , but it was one that sent her away at a brisk and confident walk towards the house , and with a gratifying sense of being respected and appreciated . |
| 9 | Baltic representatives , for instance , associated themselves closely at the 19th Party Conference with the call for ‘ regional khozraschet' or in practice for republican self-sufficiency . |
| 10 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 11 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 12 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 13 | A WEAK US economy reflected itself strongly at the second Museum of Flight Auction at Santa Monica on October 5 & 6 . |
| 14 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 15 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 16 | Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around . |
| 17 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |