Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He beat me at New Marske and he was a target for me in this one . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 5 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 6 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 9 | You expect me to believe that the board just chose me at random ? |
| 10 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 11 | well he bought the land and we saw him at different times build his bungalow it 's a lovely bungalow now int it ? |
| 12 | We saw him at Old Trafford |
| 13 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 14 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 15 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 16 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 17 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 18 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 19 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 20 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | They obtained some preserved embryo amphisbaenians — a difficult thing to do as specimens are scarce — and sectioned them at various stages of development . |
| 22 | They just picked you at random ? |