Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 2 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 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 | In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance . |
| 6 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 7 | She rubbed her back at the same time ; bending to the floor had hurt her . |
| 8 | Blind panic sent her off at a stumbling run . |
| 9 | Although the formwork was quite heavy , we pegged it down at the four corners as a precaution . |
| 10 | If anybody put him off at the 17th it was me jumping up and down . |
| 11 | With clenched teeth , Ace pulled the pins on the grenades , paused for a couple of heartbeats , and hurled them over at the German position . |
| 12 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 13 | She picked it up at the third ring . |
| 14 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |
| 15 | 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 ! |