Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 32 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 33 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 34 | Gaily followed them at a discreet distance and watched as they lowered Miss Faith Lavender into her last resting place . |
| 35 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 36 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 37 | Billy rowed across and followed her at a discreet distance . |
| 38 | As they walked he offered her his arm , unlike most punters , who followed her at a discreet distance . |
| 39 | Behind her Rose followed her at a wheezing trot , keeping up with her , until she suddenly mastered the antiquated machine , and sped away , feeling like a Swiss mountaineer with his St Bernard dog , setting off on his errand of mercy . |
| 40 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 41 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
| 42 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 43 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 44 | both , really I think they both hit you at the same time |
| 45 | Say , ‘ You lost him at an early age , did n't you ? ’ and I 'll say , ‘ Lost him ? |
| 46 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
| 47 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 48 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 49 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |
| 50 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 51 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 52 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 53 | When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door . |
| 54 | He led her at a good trot through the country lanes , by Bramfield and Tattle Hill , through Thieves Lane to Hertingfordbury . |
| 55 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 56 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 57 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 58 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 59 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 60 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |