Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 3 | Morton caught up with him at the crossroads . |
| 4 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 5 | I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 7 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 8 | He spends all day on the practice ground sometimes and this paid off for him at the German Open . |
| 9 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 10 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 11 | There seemed no limit now to what could go wrong ; panic welled up in her at the least excuse . |
| 12 | I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited . |
| 13 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 14 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
| 15 | like a soft telescope , that it looked up along it at the sky |
| 16 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
| 17 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 18 | He ordered a pastis for himself and a pineau de Charentes for Sabine , then sat down with her at a table in the corner . |
| 19 | Now he came into the dining-room where I was working and sat down opposite me at the table . |
| 20 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 21 | So nobody wins nobody loses anything and nobody really gets what they wanted out of it at the end anyway or not everything that they wanted . |