Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 2 | I was therefore delighted when one day in May they suddenly reported to me at Luqa . |
| 3 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 4 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 5 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 6 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 7 | The idea appealed to me at once , a plane full of women who , as soon as they arrived in Corfu would pounce on the natives of the island . |
| 8 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 9 | The girl came to him at once , her face a reflection of his own , eyes wide , her teeth biting on her lip . |
| 10 | According to Florence of Worcester , shortly after Æthelred died in April 1016 certain English churchmen and nobles elected Cnut king , came to him at Southampton , swore fid-elity and repudiated all Æthelred 's progeny ; in return , he vowed to be a good lord in matters both church and lay . |
| 11 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 12 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 13 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 14 | ‘ She came to us at St Sylvester 's , ’ Theodora amplified . |
| 15 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 16 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 17 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 18 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 19 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 20 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 21 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 22 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 23 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 24 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 25 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |
| 26 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 27 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 28 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 29 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 30 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |