Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rhetoric of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere still talked of Japanese altruism , but few took it at face value . |
| 2 | The 1890s saw them at their most confident , both in terms of presentation and in the range of varieties offered ; the catalogues from Suttons and Webbs were especially impressive . |
| 3 | Some demanded them at gunpoint , but we had hidden ours and my parents explained in German that they had already been taken . |
| 4 | Badgers ' coats are also getting thicker as winter approaches and this put them at risk from diggers who sell their pelts to unscrupulous collectors . |
| 5 | The farm owners were n't working class , so the ways this put them at a disadvantage is irrelevant . |
| 6 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 7 | Cranston seized the bowl by its two silver handles and half drained it at a gulp . |
| 8 | all got it at work , it 's being in an office . |
| 9 | Sir Stafford Cripps in 1950 pegged them at £410 million . |
| 10 | Henry II received them at Winchester on 21 September , but postponed consideration of their case until he himself should come to Normandy . |
| 11 | I spent those final few hours extravagantly , staying the night at the Strand Palace Hotel for ten shillings for bed , bathroom and a cooked breakfast thrown in , with sixpence extra for a haircut at the hotel barber shop — three times as much as the Underground fare of twopence from Paddington to Trafalgar Square , where a Nippy served me at Lyons ' Corner House with a sirloin steak for a shilling . |
| 12 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 13 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 14 | Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did . |
| 15 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 16 | I remember also the reaction of one or two of Ben 's older contemporaries , Constant Lambert and Patrick Hadley , who were particularly touched by this quartet when they first heard it at the dress rehearsal . |
| 17 | I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner . |
| 18 | People certainly built last year who first saw us at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in 1984 and 1985 . |
| 19 | " When I first saw you at the governor 's reception I thought you seemed … unhappy . " |
| 20 | But that put him at a disadvantage according to the flatty rules Daine had strung himself with . |
| 21 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
| 22 | That suited her at the time , it suited the law courts at the time who were the the adjudicators in the case . |
| 23 | both , really I think they both hit you at the same time |
| 24 | August 1915 saw them at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign and they suffered heavy casualties at Chocolate Hill . |
| 25 | When they returned , thousands awaited them at the airport with Yamamoto to the fore . |