Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
2 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
3 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
4 | She paused , surprised by the wave of pain and nostalgia that passed through her at the mention of the name , leaving her weak and trembling ; as if the sights , sounds , smells , tastes , feelings , sufferings of years could be experienced again in a single spasm of sickening intensity : the cold cubicle , the rustle of habits and the squeaking of boots as the nuns filed into the chapel , the stink of stew in the refectory ; her first lesson , the children shaking their up-stretched hands , eager to please the new sister ; Hilda , dew-fresh in her white blouse and neatly-pressed gym-slip , shy and ardent in the back row ; Hilda and herself together in the copse , in the chapel , in the cloisters , praying , talking , joking , sharing secrets , confidences … |
5 | She closed her eyes as the memory rushed back vividly into her mind again , and a feeling of panic rose through her at the thought that a fierce spark of that madness might be living on within her as she approached the middle of her life . |
6 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
7 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
8 | Unexpected excitement flickered inside her at the thought . |
9 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
10 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
11 | They came past him at a run , three of them , two heading straight for the room that Pope had indicated on the floor plan . |
12 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
13 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
14 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
15 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
16 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
17 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
18 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
19 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
20 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
21 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
22 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
23 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
24 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
25 | Figure 24.4 gives an example ( drawn from trajectories on the screen of a videotape of the motion ) of how one might see the bob moving if one glanced at it at a succession of equally spaced times — although one would not expect to see just this sequence ever again . |
26 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
27 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
28 | As he strapped the cleansing blade to his left arm , a thrill of carnal excitement shuddered through him at the prospect of another kill , as the bloodlust took full possession of him , banishing the last vestiges of sanity from his sick mind . |
29 | Another Haute , Edmund , lost an annuity to Walter Hungerford , who petitioned for it at the end of May : an indication that the family 's gains from royal service were recognized as being available for redistribution . |
30 | Another Haute , Edmund , lost an annuity to Walter Hungerford , who petitioned for it at the end of May : an indication that the family 's gains from royal service were recognized as being available for redistribution . |