Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys .
2 He told her so at the very end .
3 He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot .
4 ‘ When you killed me back at the Miskatonic ?
5 He raised them now at the two shaken women who sat facing him in the interview-room at Stowbridge police station .
6 It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone .
7 We met Audrey and Margaret on the way , and we saw them again at the next stop , Motueka , 60 miles to the north .
8 She rubbed her back at the same time ; bending to the floor had hurt her .
9 Although the formwork was quite heavy , we pegged it down at the four corners as a precaution .
10 I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni .
11 When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face .
12 If anybody put him off at the 17th it was me jumping up and down .
13 Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen .
14 He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face .
15 Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time .
16 With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position .
17 The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring .
18 She picked it up at the third ring .
19 Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around .
20 With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late !
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