Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Now in 1849 both companies supplied virtually the same water … the Lambeth Company got theirs from the Thames close to the Hungerford Bridge ; the Southwark and Vauxhall Company got theirs at Battersea-fields . |
| 2 | Erm I mean Martin , Martin 's very good and he 'll , you know , stop me there and , and , and go back over it and but it , it , the the was already there so it 's already got you thinking about other things and , you know , things that were completely irrelevant and it confused me at times . |
| 3 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 4 | And bittern booming followed us at intervals all day . |
| 5 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 6 | A violent , ruthless man ( released from Prison early ) gained control of a section and placed it at loggerheads with another section . |
| 7 | His hatred of the Empress , whom he never forgave for producing a male heir and thus depriving him of the succession to the throne , together with his inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the ‘ reactionary powers ’ , led him at times into very deep waters indeed . |
| 8 | That 's how she met him at relatives party . |
| 9 | He was now 25 years old and the episode on the island still haunted him at nights . |
| 10 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |
| 11 | Why was it you only got it at places like fairs and the seaside ? |
| 12 | He remembered her at moments such as these and felt a twinge of guilt — not a searing kick in the gut — which , he supposed , was something else to be thankful for . |
| 13 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 14 | No she did it at doctors . |
| 15 | I did it there originally and then did it at festivals all over the country . |
| 16 | It is surprising in a way that we remember these things , for those of us living off Greenwich Mean Time witnessed them at hours well past our normal bedtime . |
| 17 | Indeed the Americans soon found themselves moving yet closer to Britain , especially once they discovered that their own initiatives ( not least their pressure on Israel ) still left them at loggerheads with Egypt and the Arab radicals . |
| 18 | It flicked behind each dimpled knee ; and then scourged her at intervals from her pretty ankles to her shoulder blades . |
| 19 | I purchased him at 16″ long about six months ago . |
| 20 | She disengaged herself and held me at arms , length . |
| 21 | Susan came down for breakfast today , and they had an exciting time opening their parcels , for their father 's illness had prevented their making friends in the neighbourhood ; but there was plenty to do and talk about , and they steadfastly refused to give way to the depression that naturally overcame them at times . |
| 22 | Police chased him at speeds of up to 70mph . |