Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 2 | If Agrippa gave an order they obeyed with alacrity , but sometimes I caught them watching me and shuddered at the amusement in their icy , pale-blue eyes . |
| 3 | You could n't say , ‘ He made faces at me and swore at me . ’ |
| 4 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
| 5 | Sam scampered on ahead of them and waited at Dobbs ' field . |
| 6 | They gathered their filthy , scant rags about them and screamed at me to go away , their putrid breath freezing on their blue lips . |
| 7 | They looked at them and looked at them and the more they did the less they understood . |
| 8 | Sherlock Holmes was listening with his eyes closed , but now he opened them and looked at Helen Stoner . |
| 9 | That 's right I mean this card is carried with them and looked at all every every basically everybody will look at that erm because the good quality |
| 10 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 11 | He looked at you and coughed at you , there 's something going on ! |
| 12 | She sat down on the bench opposite to him and looked at his fat baby face , which was now showing some concern . |
| 13 | He took the seat to which Carson had gestured him and glanced at the message slip . |
| 14 | When she spoke to him and tugged at his arm he just moaned , his face grey and twisted with pain . |
| 15 | Meg came up to him and tugged at his arm . |
| 16 | I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling . |
| 17 | I went up to him and gushed at him for about twenty minutes , told him we were making an album , asked him to sing on it and he said , ‘ Sure . ’ |
| 18 | He closed the door behind him and smiled at Tolby . |
| 19 | A small boy with her brandished a plastic gun and made banging sounds at us , but the woman admonished him and smiled at us . |
| 20 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 21 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
| 22 | She took it from him and sipped at the sweet sherry , reminded by its taste that he bought it specially because she did n't like sweet sherry . |
| 23 | But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club . |
| 24 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 25 | Dada took the book from her and looked at the first page . |
| 26 | She clutched her dress to her and looked at him with as much scorn as she could . |
| 27 | He rose above her and looked at her , his gaze moving over her with slow , lingering care , tasting her with his eyes as his hands and mouth had tasted her parted lips , her upthrust breasts , her parted thighs . |
| 28 | Minnie had written to her about how terrible it had been , how Captain Cook had brought his wife up to see a specialist who had examined her and said at once there was nothing to be done , there was no operation possible , and he must take his wife home to die . |
| 29 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
| 30 | She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills . |