Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gazed at Teds and my friend Pam 's cousin Malcolm who had a Tony Curtis and a bootlace tie . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The bellends are long and low and though they give good shape for wind deflection I found at times I needed a little more height when cooking . |
| 4 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 5 | I grinned at farts . |
| 6 | And then she said on the , she said I looked at houses like this she said |
| 7 | I looked at loads and told them I did n't like any and I wanted to wear just black . |
| 8 | I looked at set-backs as if they were predetermined , as if a fixed number of them were waiting for me and once one of them was overcome the number to come decreased . |
| 9 | My recollection , and I 'm speaking from memory , and I could be wrong , but I think that the last time I looked at lists of the various companies in Telford , where I 'm obviously more concerned , not , well , that 's not to mean I 'm not concerned elsewhere , but I 'm more familiar with respect to them , my recollection is that the more American than anything else on that site . |
| 10 | I had at Carrans Cort blown down 30 great ealmes which had in them 50 tunes of timber . ’ |
| 11 | Inside The Hall of Fame she gazed at statutes of pop legends like The Beatles , Elton John and her childhood favourites , Abba . |
| 12 | She stopped at Barbs 's house and pushed open the gate . |
| 13 | For four years , she camped at friends . |
| 14 | She baulked at commitments , over money as well as over men . |
| 15 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 16 | She came at things from an angle ; she made connections . |
| 17 | As a Trainer she brought enthusiasm and inspiration to the courses held there , and with boundless energy she taught at courses and rallies all over the country . |
| 18 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 19 | You worn at pubs ? |
| 20 | You looked at things differently , yes certainly you did . |
| 21 | Yes , given a chance she could be one of them , the way she thought at times . |
| 22 | She looked at Nails doubtfully , wishing he would choose a more restful bed than the floor of the garden shed at St Aloysius 's , but his expression did not encourage sympathy . |
| 23 | Clusters of actions so she looked at things like the use of the hands the use of the feet the use of the eyes erm and what she called the centre line . |
| 24 | In parallel , Celie too was oppressed , but by all the men in her life , she looked at women for she was not afraid of them . |
| 25 | And er but that 's the only time , you sang at weddings . |
| 26 | And when her father 's hands were on her she felt at times she would vomit all over his suit . |
| 27 | She spoke at intervals about moving herself and Marcus out of the flat ( which she agreed to be horrid ) perhaps to another flat or to some vaguely envisaged country cottage . |
| 28 | An excellent speaker , she spoke at conferences on its behalf all over England and travelled extensively in the USA , Canada , New Zealand , and Australia during the 1930s . |
| 29 | And all that time , Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times , when she was alone and longing to ‘ break down ’ , to clutch her breast with a fierce answering force to keep the black horror from spurting forth . |
| 30 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |