Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 2 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 3 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
| 4 | When he 'd finished at the sink I came out and wound myself lovingly around his legs but he shut me in the kitchen . |
| 5 | Cold sweat ran from his face ; he had scratched at the wound which Tig had inflicted previously , and blood and yellow fluid seeped down into the feathered ruff . |
| 6 | They had said at the school she had had a screaming session . |
| 7 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 8 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 9 | If he had braked at the collision he would have slid straight past the scene . |
| 10 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 11 | Once after I had recited at the Guild I was given a pair of woollen gloves , speckled coloured , and with cuffs , which was quite an unexpected treat . |