Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 2 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 3 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 4 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 5 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 6 | As he dumped his case in the pleasant bedroom , lifted the lid and left it at that , he reflected . |
| 7 | He crawled out of the trench and joined me at the gun . |
| 8 | In quick strides , he came forward , scooped the child from the ground and thrust him at her . |
| 9 | Downstairs she made herself a cup of coffee and carried it out onto the patio and drank it at the table , smoked a loose-rolled sweet Italian cigarette , and watched the coming of the dawn . |
| 10 | The other man picked up the dressing gown lying on the end of the bed and threw it at Connelly . |
| 11 | Quiss stumbled out of his seat , almost falling , scooped a flat piece of slate from the floor and threw it at the red crow , which screamed and jumped out of the way , spreading its wings and dropping away , flying into the cold clear space below the balcony , its final call echoing briefly , like laughter . |
| 12 | I jumped to the table , picked up the plate and hurled it at him . |
| 13 | He took the grenade from his pocket , unleased the pin and threw it at the base of the double gates . |
| 14 | Stein came along , smelt the drink , refused to listen to Rough 's explanation , picked up the glass and threw it at the keeper and marched off . |
| 15 | Coleridge 's friend , Thomas de Quincey , wrote his own Gothic novel , Klosterheim , and passed on the infection to James Hogg ( 1770–1835 ) , who , in The Confessions of , a Justified Sinner , borrowed the spectre of the Brocken and installed it at Arthur 's Seat , near Edinburgh . |
| 16 | He took out the fragment of the news-sheet and waved it at Thai . |
| 17 | He took the kettle from its hook above the fire and filled it at the sink . |