Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
2 | Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’ |
3 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
4 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
5 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
6 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |
7 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
8 | I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ? |
9 | I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper . |
10 | And , on top of that , all the new friends I made at the grammar lived out West , in Greenford or Ealing . |
11 | The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are . |
12 | However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art . |
13 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
14 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
15 | As I announced at the end of the trial , I am immediately doing two things . |
16 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |
17 | I realised at the beginning of 1992 that we were not core and that we were to be disposed of — we had a very difficult year . ’ |
18 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
19 | A police graduate I met at a seminar on ‘ Research into the Police ’ , which we had both attended in a private capacity and without force blessing or financial assistance , later wrote to me : |
20 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
21 | Someone I met at a party ! |
22 | A girl I met at a party on Saturday night . ’ |
23 | Mr J A Rawson , who I met at the ‘ latter Lee ’ in 1985 , remembered when the fair was on the Baghill site . |
24 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
25 | Everyone else I met at the LIBF was welcoming , even when I was humming and hawing over buying singles or two copies of a small number of titles . |
26 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
27 | I pawed at the hairy form . |
28 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
29 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |
30 | This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others . |