Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 2 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 3 | But when it stopped he lunged at her face with a jagged edged knife . |
| 4 | But when it stopped he lunged at Janice 's head with the jagged-edged weapon before running off . |
| 5 | When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself . |
| 6 | When the hospital people came they shouted at us too , and called us dogs . " |
| 7 | When Hazel woke he perceived at once that it was morning — some time after sunrise , by the smell of it . |
| 8 | It seemed he lived at home with his widowed mother and , following a fight with her , he had picked up an axe and killed her . |
| 9 | When the firemen finally arrived I pointed at the sacrificial pyre still burning and burbled something about my priceless slide-collection . |
| 10 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 11 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 12 | When Eva Hendrix arrived he pointed at his own glass . |
| 13 | When I replied he looked at me , then at my colleague , and addressing him , said , ‘ Oh well , at any rate he was born in Canada . ’ |
| 14 | As she walked she tore at the seal , unfolding the single sheet . |
| 15 | We had been going on the idea that whoever killed her lunged at her when she was standing up : a thrust parallel to the ground . ’ |
| 16 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
| 17 | In his book , Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain , published in 1724 , the English author Daniel Defoe wrote of having seen the horn and heard it sounded at Coilsfield House ( later rebuilt and named Montgomerie House ) to call the servants to their duties . |
| 18 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 19 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 20 | He had issued an instruction ; one which the glint in his eye warned she disobeyed at her peril . |
| 21 | Jacky Lee , it seemed , had arrived in time , as an eighteen year old , to be part of Peter Thomson 's British Open swansong , but seven years later , Queenslander Thomson decided he had at least one more British Open title to win in him . |
| 22 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 23 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
| 24 | PAUSE I thought I knew at last who you were , why you liked me at school , why you took the trouble to read those poems I 'd written . |
| 25 | It was like a pit , and as she fell she clutched at a hand , but the hand turned into a foot and the foot kicked her . |
| 26 | Now , however , her husband had a motor-car — the first Cork Jew to possess one — and as they drove to the synagogue , their distinguished visitor , Karlinsky , beside her in the back seat , she felt she had at last come into her kingdom . |
| 27 | ‘ How tactless of me , ’ she said to herself , and to cover up the awkwardness she felt she pointed at the statue . |
| 28 | and you looked she looked at me and said , |
| 29 | He looked with concern at the scratches on Lucy 's face , then poured tea which he insisted she drank at once . |
| 30 | Sir Bruce sipped , made a face , and whispered to Agnes : ‘ And I thought we suffered at MoD . |