Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I reckoned that if a star got stopped at the edge , I 'd be safe , what with my rocket and all . ’ |
| 2 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 3 | Many prophets in the tenth century believed that the world would come to an end in the year 1000 , but according to A. J. Gurevich the legends concerning mass psychoses in Europe as the year 1000 approached originated at the end of the fifteenth century when people really were afraid that the end of the world was imminent . |
| 4 | After Munich , however , even many Conservatives became disturbed at the failure to halt German expansion and some of the Left , encouraged by the Communists , found themselves seeking alliances with old enemies like Churchill or Lloyd George on the basis of common opposition to Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 5 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 6 | It was a late start because of the poor education he 'd received at the local Protestant school . |
| 7 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |
| 8 | Her handbag had fallen behind the car seat when she 'd stopped at the traffic lights in town so several minutes were lost as she scrabbled for her pass , then when she drove into the car park she could n't immediately find a space and had to drive round several times . |
| 9 | He was rearranging his hair in the rear-view mirror as the monster moved out into the traffic , scattering small boys who 'd gathered at the front of the car to try and open the bonnet , for God 's sake , and examine the engine . |
| 10 | Through the crowd round the barrels William saw the priest who 'd officiated at the funeral and who 'd asked him about the hymns . |
| 11 | He 'd looked at the sheet of newspaper with the long-necked figures and the rough lines , and had seen the type underneath and its story about a car bomb in the city centre . |
| 12 | I doubt if he 'd , I mean if he 'd looked at the constitution it was only a constitution , it was oh yes , that 's their constitution . |
| 13 | Er is I 'd looked at the using their machine build which I 've built in , |
| 14 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 15 | She 'd stood there , shivering with the cold , her already ragged clothes ripped further by the rough handling she 'd endured at the hands of the militia . |
| 16 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 17 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 18 | Nancy was standing in the middle of the yard with her hands to her face , shouting about a black bogey she 'd seen at the window of the hayloft . |
| 19 | She recognized all the people she 'd seen at the dinner table in the Llandogger Trow and at the Frolic . |
| 20 | Watching , Jess was reminded of a pack of alley cats she 'd seen at the rear of Samson 's smithy one night . |
| 21 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 22 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 23 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 24 | He 'd wept at the lack of talent , enjoying the attention of fifteen girls , and had played the hard-bitten foreign correspondent to their naivety . |
| 25 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 26 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 27 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 28 | It was cold in London compared to the unnatural steamy heat they 'd suffered at the Paul Ricard circuit . |
| 29 | Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her . |
| 30 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |