Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd arranged to meet at her house . ’ |
| 2 | Oh oh yeah well there was no option , you 'd got to cos you dare n't speak you 'd oh er friendly in our lunch break you know er dinner break really we did n't have lunch time erm we were all friendly together and er as I say er we got on alright , but you 'd er you 'd got to stick at your job absolutely you dare n't move oh , they do n't know they are born today |
| 3 | And of course the woman was n't really one of theirs , just some distant freelance , and the back-up with her was some nutty amateur they 'd had to use at the last moment — |
| 4 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 5 | Her body was found in a hall of residence only hours after she 'd arrived to teach at a summer school of the Open University … today courses continued despite the tragedy … |
| 6 | It was suggested she 'd gone to live at Newport in Gwent , but she was never located . |
| 7 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 8 | But outside the house on this Sunday morning the usual gossip was forgotten , for Max Klein 's new motor-car was parked at the Rabbi 's front door and it seemed that half the community had gathered to wonder at it . |
| 9 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 10 | Baldwin had intended to resign at once if Labour got a majority and this was still his instinct , but now he retired to Chequers where on 1 June came Davidson , Eyres Monsell , Austen Chamberlain and Hoare . |
| 11 | Supposing , just supposing , that Mackay and Parsons had arranged to meet at the cottage . |
| 12 | They had arranged to meet at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 13 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 14 | Hope was so dug into his happy daydream that he failed to notice that Crump had stopped to gaze at something : he himself walked several yards on before the absence of his companion impinged on him . |
| 15 | The woman , from Heywood , near Rochdale , had stopped to look at directions in Farnworth near Manchester when the man struck at 5.40am on Saturday . |
| 16 | The Kurd , whom she had expected to flee at the first shaking of the ground , was staying with them . |
| 17 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 18 | To disclose whether or not a warrant has been issued in a particular case could establish means whereby those involved in serious crimes or espionage or subversion could learn the extent to which their activities had come to notice or — perhaps more damaging — could in some cases confirm whether their activities had come to notice at all . |
| 19 | In the event , Paris was saved because Galliéni recognized that the moment had come to strike at the Germans when Kluck , wheeling northeast of the city , exposed his right flank to the Sixth Army . |
| 20 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 21 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 22 | In any case the latter now had a substitute , very agreeable to Dinah ; the young man Nathan Holland who had come to read at Lamprey 's . |
| 23 | That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview . |
| 24 | As he left the café he realised that he had forgotten to look at Elsie 's feet . |
| 25 | But he had used their bathroom and was back in bed again before he realized that he had forgotten to look at his daughter . |
| 26 | The Continental Palace orchestra had been playing the new popular melody " Tea for Two " as he came out onto the terrace , and he had been faintly surprised in the event that nobody had turned to stare at him . |
| 27 | Last year she had come to his school for the first time , and every eye had turned to gape at her long red hair and golden earrings as she swept into the assembly-hall wearing one of her special dresses . |
| 28 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 29 | His voice cut into her thoughts , and she realised that he had turned to look at her . |
| 30 | Suddenly , he had turned to look at her — simultaneously surprising her and proving her theory . |