Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 2 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 3 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 4 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 5 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 6 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 7 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 8 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 9 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 10 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 11 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 12 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 13 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 14 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 15 | So how did I arrive at this mix ? |
| 16 | ‘ When and why did you arrive at that conclusion ? ’ she queried quietly . |
| 17 | What other things did you do at this school ? |
| 18 | So what did you do at this farm today then ? |
| 19 | How long did you work at that place for , then ? |
| 20 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
| 21 | Did you did you fight at that time then ? |
| 22 | Well what we did we stopped at this track and we turned round and we went to there was like a twenty foot straight yeah , and there 's like and everybody 's sort of like going , no , not that . |
| 23 | ‘ So what did they do at these meetings ? ’ |
| 24 | Why did they buy at that time ? |
| 25 | One writer , who has covered the Royal Family for 12 years , said : ‘ In 30 minutes of speeches and toasts , not once did they look at each other . ’ |
| 26 | And where did he live at that time ? |
| 27 | Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows . |
| 28 | You left them thrashin' at thin air . |
| 29 | She said not until five past , Mrs said you can get up them stairs , she said you go at ten minutes early every day ! |
| 30 | It ca n't , even had they married at this stage it would not have been right . |