Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours . |
| 32 | Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive . |
| 33 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 34 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |
| 35 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 36 | He hefted the pistol towards the window , laid it on the sill , cocked it , put a percussion cap beneath the hammer , directed it at some sepoys trotting below , and pulled the trigger , confident that a sepoy would throw up his arms and sink to the ground . |
| 37 | like I imagined it at all . |
| 38 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 39 | He telephoned me at three o'clock in the morning , and asked me to confirm it . |
| 40 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 41 | I admired her at first , wanting to help the slaves . |
| 42 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |
| 43 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 44 | But she hated it at first . |
| 45 | I ) lay parallel to the earlier military ditches , while the other ( No.2 ) joined it at right angles , suggesting that the military plan influenced the layout . |
| 46 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 47 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 48 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 49 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 50 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 51 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 52 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 53 | I followed them at all three , but if The Valley was a 100 miles away , I 'd still be back . ’ |
| 54 | She heard me at last . |
| 55 | As it turned out , Mr. Wickstead , although very fond of Richard , never taught him at all ! |
| 56 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 57 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 58 | Daly started his first round at 1pm , and finished it at 7.30 the previous evening . |
| 59 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 60 | ‘ Our conditions were so strict , I 'm surprised they signed us at all . |