Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 2 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 3 | WELL , WHEN I OFFERED SIR WILFRED MY RESIGNATION , THE OLD BUGGER GAVE ME A SECOND-HAND YACHT HE 'D PICKED UP AT AN AUCTION … |
| 4 | He 'd applauded politely at the end of every number , but seemed totally unmoved , and somehow that had made her try all the harder , as though it were imperative that she reach him . |
| 5 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 6 | A sharp , cruel memory had slid into her mind : her father , calming her when she 'd cried hysterically at the death of her new kitten . |
| 7 | And who had told him that she 'd stayed late at the office ? |
| 8 | She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd woken up at a quarter past four that morning to find Lavinia awake beside him , as often she was now in the middle of the night . |
| 10 | She 'd stood there at the door where he was such a short time before . |
| 11 | After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed . |
| 12 | The wind and rain on the little hill above Jaffa had ripped away at the paint but it was just possible to make out the words ‘ David Damiani ’ to the left of the broken wooden gate . |
| 13 | Somehow my pursuer had guessed correctly at every turn . |
| 14 | She had gazed petulantly at a mantelpiece empty of deckle-edged cards , remembering the time when she had never wanted for an escort or a party . |
| 15 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 16 | The report , compiled by Judge Ezra Kama and issued on July 18 , claimed that rioting had broken out at the Temple Mount after the accidental discharge of a police tear-gas canister near a group of Palestinian women . |
| 17 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 18 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 19 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 20 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 21 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 22 | A spokesman at the hotel said he and the other members of the team had checked in at the weekend and appeared to be none the worse for their ordeal . |
| 23 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 24 | Boyfriend Garry Curtis , of Bedhampton , Hants , dragged her to safety — and rescuers arrived to find the couple , who had fallen out at a party , kissing and hugging . |
| 25 | The American boy stared at his empty glass , which he had drained nervously at a gulp , and looked uncertainly towards the figure of his mother fast disappearing among the crowd . |
| 26 | There the plaintiff had booked in at the reception desk of a hotel and only subsequently , on entering her room , did she discover behind the door a notice which claimed to exclude the hotel 's liability for guests ’ property . |
| 27 | But before this , Wyatt had dined privately at the Palace with Fergie and the Iraqi oil minister . |
| 28 | They all stared at me wide-eyed and continued to stand and stare even after I had sat down at the table . |
| 29 | One of Andrew Buccleuth 's analysts had looked carefully at the company since one of my big customers , a pension fund with vast resources to spend , had bought heavily into the company and so had several of my private clients . |
| 30 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |