Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 2 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
| 3 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 4 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |
| 5 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 6 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 7 | James was full of praise for the medical teams who helped him both at the scene and at Coleraine hospital . |
| 8 | This did n't matter very much as cylinders soon found themselves right at the bottom of the class structure of recordings , and not many featured artists worth naming . |
| 9 | Kenny Clark flung himself forward at the ball , only to see his efforts strike the foot of the post , but Julio Berazi was on hand to stab home and collect his fourth goal of the season . |
| 10 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
| 11 | As he breasted the deck level Delaney ducked back , threw himself aside at the sight of the figure sprawled on the ground . |
| 12 | Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall . |
| 13 | He picked up the book he was reading , and threw it violently at the rat . |
| 14 | He threw it hard at the Dodger , but missed and hit Charley Bates , who started to shout with fear . |
| 15 | That 's how it seems in memory ; and we each apprehended it subcutaneously at the time , il me semble . |
| 16 | You know they joined it right at the beginning , they , they 're the ones where the momentum 's come from erm they 're the ones asking the rich peasants to join them , the middle peasants and they 're the ones leading the revolution , th they are the riff-raff if you , you know , want to take one view erm they have n't got anything to lose because of their position er er er er as erm a rich peasant may say , you know , what is there to keep me from joining yo you people have neither tile over your heads nor speck of land under your feet , and it 's true they have got nothing to lose but these are the ones that are pushing the ideas forward and forming the associations . |
| 17 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 18 | This and his aristocratic connections served him well at the Restoration . |
| 19 | So no I think er we all stuck it together at the start , not really knowing where it was gon na lead us . |
| 20 | Nutty flung herself blindly at the opposition . |
| 21 | In the decade since Mr McGuinness professed to have turned his back on the IRA and to have become a Sinn Fein politician , more than 40 witnesses and statements placed him firmly at the scene of violent incidents — and at the heart of the IRA 's decision-making process . |
| 22 | He was a small man and it looked as if his rifle was much too heavy for him as he waved it threateningly at the crowd inside the camp . |
| 23 | She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist . |
| 24 | I think that , too , must have been part of an identity check , particularly as she repeated it again at the end . " |
| 25 | He then only needed a pitching-wedge and he hit it straight at the pin to about 18 feet or so . |
| 26 | At the 13th , a big sloping green , he studied my putt and said : ‘ Ah now , it 's a canny putt , son , but let me see … yes , hit it straight at the pin . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I saw you both at the Castle , then I lost you . ’ |
| 28 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 29 | Beatie crossed herself quickly at the mention of the dead , the young Irish woman was sometimes ashamed of her husband 's bluntness . |
| 30 | It was Lavinia who had supported him every step of the way , kept him upright at the graveside , yet within a month she , too , was alone , her husband shot down over the Western Front . |