Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waist exercise 1 : keep your legs apart and raise both arms above your head , keeping them bent at 90° . |
| 2 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |
| 3 | I gazed at Caduta warily . |
| 4 | I gazed at Teds and my friend Pam 's cousin Malcolm who had a Tony Curtis and a bootlace tie . |
| 5 | We climbed aboard the transport and as we moved away in convoy I gazed at Francoise from the back of the truck . |
| 6 | They offered at £6.15s.0d. , I countered at £7.5s.0d. , confident of settlement at £7.0s.0d. , their counter was £6.15s.0d. or forget it ! |
| 7 | I do n't want to even think about the two mistakes I made at Wembley the last time against Spurs . ’ |
| 8 | Finally , I must correct Mr Marnell 's inaccurate version of a quote I made at committee . |
| 9 | If the development of civil society means in later capitalism , say from the end of the nineteenth century , the flourishing of an independent cultural and aesthetic sphere , then this might , as I argued at length above , be disruptive to the ideal interests , indeed to the very identity , of the bourgeoisie . |
| 10 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
| 11 | But I lived at home . ’ |
| 12 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 13 | No-one ‘ dropped in ’ on our family the whole of the time I lived at home . |
| 14 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 15 | If it 's like the one we lived in , cos when I , I lived at home with mum and dad we lived in Craigan Road and they 're two rooms . |
| 16 | Oh I li well I , I 've had a lot of moves dear in my time I tell you I , first of all when I first got married I lived at Bishop 's Stortford , then from Bishop 's Stortford I went to erm Stansted in rooms cos I , you know we could n't get a place and from there I had one of my sons oh hello time , eleven o'clock just struck what 's the day ? |
| 17 | Cos she says you would n't lend me none when I lived at Arthur 's , I says no because every time I lent one at our Arthur 's he swore black and blue it were his . |
| 18 | ‘ Madeleine , Mrs Appleby is a person , not just a cook ; and in the days when I lived at Maythorpe House , she was enormously kind to me , ’ Harry said . |
| 19 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |
| 20 | It looks like the beaded beauty Tumbleweed and I met at Appleby . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 22 | But the Lord Lane I met at Aviemore could hardly have been more different — affable , witty and without a trace of self awareness of his office ; and if I call him Geoffrey here , it is only because after Aviemore we became friends , played the odd round of golf together , exchanged letters and met on several social occasions . |
| 23 | The fellow I met at Heathrow never spoke . |
| 24 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 25 | I winked at Mrs Patel and to my surprise she winked back . |
| 26 | I winked at Benjamin . |
| 27 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 28 | I always posted two sentries at night , more if the situation warranted it , and Omar or I checked at intervals to make sure they were awake . |
| 29 | Certainly , I 'd never erm , forgiven er people for beatings I got at school . |
| 30 | Johnston said : ‘ It has not gone anywhere near as well as I expected at Everton . |