Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 3 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 4 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 5 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 6 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 7 | It made me cringe at its over-the-top violence . |
| 8 | The g was less , and that made me feel at home . |
| 9 | looked after me in Hyderabad , where he and his wife made me feel at home with their warm , relaxing hospitality . |
| 10 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 11 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 12 | It made me look at myself again with a more critical eye and say yes , I can be more positive and look to the future with renewed optimism . |
| 13 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 14 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 15 | You made me look at you , I 've overlowed his |
| 16 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 17 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 18 | You know that people were able to afford this like everything else er mass produced I mean at er that the public get the benefit . |
| 19 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 20 | He and Ricky made friends with Captain Peter Blagrove and his wife Alice , wealthy , white Jamaican landowners who invited them to stay at their home . |
| 21 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
| 22 | Watkins found them sited at intervals along a ley and often at the crossing of two leys . |
| 23 | who found me staring at you in a store |
| 24 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 25 | In the antique firearms section there was a pair of pistols fitted with a detonating system which used fulminate and dated from about 1809 ; there was an intriguing possible English royal connection and this , together with their unusual detonation , helped them sell at £5,000 . |
| 26 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 27 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 28 | When Charles invited her to dine at Buckingham Palace the Parker-Bowles or his skiing companions Charles and Patti Palmer-Tomkinson were always present . |
| 29 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 30 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |