Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 2 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |
| 3 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 4 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 5 | When we , we using B H C vaccine in eigh er , late seventies , early eighties , erm , that caused problems because we had residues left in the meat , and the French amongst others found it as well , so there were , there were problems there , and the Ministry went over to organo-phos or to organo-phosphorus dips , they were the only alternative that they 'd got at that er , time . |
| 6 | She 'd laughed at that and resisted the urge to cuddle him in front of one of ‘ the lads ’ and had gone . |
| 7 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 8 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 9 | This was n't what he 'd planned at all , a detour . |
| 10 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 11 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 12 | He was blond with deep-set brown eyes which looked troubled at this moment , and he was well dressed . |
| 13 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 14 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 15 | The boy had scoffed at this but Farag had told him to wait and see . |
| 16 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 17 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 18 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 19 | It had been gentle , a sweet , surprised discovering , and they had looked at each other shyly afterwards , unable to speak . |
| 20 | The girls had looked at each other curiously and Antonia had trailed obediently after the older woman . |
| 21 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 22 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 23 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 24 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 25 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 26 | Devotional vids had hinted at such possibilities . |
| 27 | Indeed , recently a journalist from The Lady had hinted at some connection between the heroine and Lily . |
| 28 | Evans flushed and looked far more embarrassed than he had done at any stage so far . |
| 29 | But a different system had prevailed at Wyvis Hall , or rather no system had prevailed at all . |
| 30 | Critics of the Vienna conference , notably the Tehran-based Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , had said at that time that the conference should have been held in the region to make it more accessible for the bulk of the exiled opposition . |