Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night sweats frightened him at first . |
| 2 | My mum washed mine at the weekend and they 're in a pile on my floor and I have n't been arsed so I 'm just sleeping on the mattress with the bare duvet . |
| 3 | Immigration officials detained him at Heathrow Airport and threatened to return him to Sweden . |
| 4 | Had n't Helen kept him at arms ' length for months now ? |
| 5 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 6 | The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words . |
| 7 | Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over . |
| 8 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 9 | And one suspects it might be back in the days of the nineteen fifties , nineteen sixties when the labour party opposed anything at local level , of course , but at local level that might tend towards helping people to be upwardly mobile on the grounds that upwardly mobile people stop voting labour . |
| 10 | Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver . |