Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 2 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 3 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 4 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 5 | Prof Chris Turner , professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences , Stirling University , made his at this week 's Children 's Panels conference at Peebles : |
| 6 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 7 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 8 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 9 | There were great gaps of time when no one directed me at all . |
| 10 | Yes , did you find that hindered you at all ? |
| 11 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | like I imagined it at all . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I followed them at all three , but if The Valley was a 100 miles away , I 'd still be back . ’ |
| 22 | As it turned out , Mr. Wickstead , although very fond of Richard , never taught him at all ! |
| 23 | ‘ Our conditions were so strict , I 'm surprised they signed us at all . |
| 24 | The road was crossed by a locked-down barrier about two kilometres further on , but Belov had a key and the barrier hardly slowed them at all . |
| 25 | She rang me at half past ten , I 'd forgotten all about it till phone went and I says ooh I 've lost your phone number . |
| 26 | Indeed , she was starting to wonder — in a moment of forlornness that was unlike her — if anyone needed her at all . |
| 27 | I never loved him at all , Angel . |
| 28 | I spotted it and lost it at that last roundabout . |
| 29 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 30 | If all else failed they at any rate ought to produce children . |