Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind in the gusts seemed directed straight at the small casement window , which rattled and banged . |
| 2 | Several booksellers commented that their sales of Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Methuen ) had roared ahead at the full price , despite the fact that the book was available at a discount at Dillons down the road or around the corner . |
| 3 | Bleeding had stopped spontaneously at the endoscopic examination . |
| 4 | Fenella and Floy and Snodgrass had sat quietly at the other side of the table , not eating very much , listening carefully to everything that was said . |
| 5 | ‘ Hello stranger , ’ Cormack had said aggressively , and Amanda had looked nervously at the two men . |
| 6 | She had turned inland at the right spot she was sure . |
| 7 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 8 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 9 | Tom Cotter , the little fat station master who had gawked unashamedly at the beautiful girl on his platform , could still have had the same shirt on . |
| 10 | She had laughed then at the vivid imagination of the child , but now for a brief moment she saw the city as Maggie saw it , basking in the first rays of the sun and oblivious to the dangerous mist below that might suck it in before it could wake up and take wing against the now blue blue sky . |
| 11 | They had lunched together at a small restaurant full of pseudo-oak beams and bright red table-cloths . |
| 12 | They had arrived independently at a similar view on the character of Prince Hal and the way in which that should be developed through the three plays . |
| 13 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 14 | The comedian had gone backstage at the Grand Theatre , Blackpool , after Wednesday night 's performance of Sherlock Holmes : The Musical . |
| 15 | Allitt had worked regularly at an old people 's home and been spotted by an auxiliary nurse one night giving an injection to a 73-year-old diabetic , Dorothy Lowe . |
| 16 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 17 | Laura , a far more quiet and serious character than her cousin , had left home at the same time for Cambridge University , to read economics . |
| 18 | Marius had confessed that he had crippled a Turkish immigrant in Stockholm and Alex was told the registration number of the Land Rover he had left behind at the German frontier when he had deserted . |
| 19 | The hot water had prickled pleasantly at the nameless place at the tops of my thighs when I got in ; cooler now , it lapped at the dome of my stomach . |
| 20 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |