Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
2 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
3 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
4 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
5 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
6 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
7 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
8 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |
9 | Ruth poured cornflakes and milk , and ate them sitting at the table where Rachaela drank her coffee . |
10 | ‘ I told you to stay at the house . ’ |
11 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
12 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
13 | As she walked she tore at the seal , unfolding the single sheet . |
14 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
15 | Edging between the two tall , upright stones , Tug heard him mutter at the Woman , ‘ Lock up the car and bring the Kalashnikov . |
16 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
17 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
18 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
19 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
20 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
21 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
22 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
23 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
24 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
25 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
26 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
27 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
28 | Reid saw me looking at the iron bars . |
29 | But something kept me sitting at the desk . |
30 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |