Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 2 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 3 | Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed . |
| 4 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 5 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 6 | Elsie , who lived with us at that time , just sat with tears streaming down her face . |
| 7 | A guy in a bell-bottomed jumpsuit flew by me at some speed and struck the sidewalk . |
| 8 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 9 | The stream was marked with a blue line and what looked like a child 's drawing of a ladder lay across it at one point . |
| 10 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 11 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 12 | Stifling the pang of uncivilised jealousy that shot through her at that thought , Folly eased herself into the driver 's seat and slammed the door . |
| 13 | He shot after him at high speed . |
| 14 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 15 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 16 | Elizabeth wrote to me at this time . |
| 17 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 18 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |