Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 2 | My father had initially encouraged my interest in the stock market and I had jumped at the chance of a part-time job in the City . |
| 3 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 4 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 5 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 7 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 8 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 9 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
| 10 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 11 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 12 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 13 | But there was plenty of time , and they had to wait at the other end of the tunnel . |
| 14 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 15 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 16 | He went through his whole performance second by second , from the moment Westerman had introduced him and he had waved at the camera , to the moment Westerman had summed up , and he had told him it was absolutely fascinating . |
| 17 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 18 | It was true that there were usually two of them together and he remembered thinking at the time that the other one was probably in a shop begging . |
| 19 | Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants . |
| 20 | The only problem was , they were supposed to be on piece work , and it meant working at the same pace . |
| 21 | It 's a pure technicality , Mr chairman , but I did ask at the previous meeting er , that the erm , director of property services respond to me on a matter relating to Wootton Bassett magistrate 's court , If we have such a large amount of money that we can spend I think the questions that I posed then , er are relevant and I would appreciate a reply . |
| 22 | ‘ But we seemed to freeze at the start , ’ conceded Nicholl . |
| 23 | Diana Travers was n't a member of her birthday party but they did dine at the same restaurant , the Black Swan on the river at Cookham . |
| 24 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |