Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 2 | Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted . |
| 3 | Some who came at the outset no longer come to events , but others have joined since . |
| 4 | This he accomplished at the sea-battle of Svold , on 9 September 999 . |
| 5 | Then she snatched a cigarette from a box , her hand shaking so much she laughed at the difficulty she had in lighting it . |
| 6 | There was a set of letters tied up in a bundle with a violet silk ribbon and all written in the same ridiculous and now-faded violet ink ; they were scented with old makeup ( each one bore at the bottom of its last page a lipstick kiss in Nuits de Paris ) and were on expensive and indeed pretentious notepaper as thin as an onion skin . |
| 7 | All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails . |
| 8 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 9 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 10 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 11 | An Arsenal friend of mine admitted that all he wanted at the moment was for Leeds to catch Scum . |
| 12 | Yeremi would avenge that victim on those who roosted at the summit . |
| 13 | With this lot there were those who stayed at the end to tutt-tutt at some of the language and that . |
| 14 | Such was true of those who scoffed at the idea that Blacks had moral rights . |
| 15 | For all those who scoffed at the idea of my mastering anything complex like Excel , I 'm pleased to say that I 've bought my first copy , and it 's nothing like as hard as I thought . |
| 16 | It was a place where there were huge contrasts between the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have nots ’ — between those who worshipped at the altar of a comfortable middle-class lifestyle and those who worshipped at the altar of envy and jealousy of those around them — and I am sure that you can find echoes of those things in Exeter at this end of 1991 . |
| 17 | It was a place where there were huge contrasts between the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have nots ’ — between those who worshipped at the altar of a comfortable middle-class lifestyle and those who worshipped at the altar of envy and jealousy of those around them — and I am sure that you can find echoes of those things in Exeter at this end of 1991 . |
| 18 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |