Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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1 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
2 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
3 | Mr Stone was a committee member of a society which regularly met at a public house owned by a brewery and managed by their employee , Taffe . |
4 | Certificates were awarded to the 63 girls who all passed at a variety of levels in the recent exams . |
5 | The chances are that , if you were all given a lot of time to write each essay without your notes and you just sat at a desk and had about three hours on each question , you 'd all do very well . |
6 | She also helped at a Brownie Pack and was a volunteer mini-bus driver for children with special needs . |
7 | The latter is an unusual work because it is about people who really lived at a particular period and who had particular relationships with each other . |
8 | She never looked at a woman 's magazine after that , though she saw from their covers , displayed beside the supermarket till , that they had not changed , but went on churning out the same old stuff . |
9 | When she recently appeared at a New York department store to promote a scent , over 5,000 people turned up to catch a precious glimpse of her in the flesh . |
10 | The volume is priced at $48 ( available from the University of Chicago Press ) and is dedicated to the memory of Guy Bauman , associate curator in the Met 's department of European paintings , who recently died at a sadly early age . |
11 | We finally arrived at a figure of two hundred and fifty pounds and he was perfectly agreeable . ’ |
12 | ‘ Well , we originally started at a place outside o ’ town , called Glencogh . |
13 | We both know about farming — we even met at a Young Farmers ' dance ! |
14 | At the meeting I reported on the position of the gathering health service dispute and we then looked at a number of other pay issues . |
15 | In October 1967 , when he was manager of Chelsea he was suspended by the English FA for 28 days for alleged misconduct during a friendly match in Bermuda , where he persistently swore at a black referee . |
16 | He finally arrived at a compromise with her , which was that he could have three independent , non-civil servant , advisers . |
17 | Smiling , she wondered whether he ever moved at a normal pace . |
18 | He always stayed at a high-class hotel on trips abroad . |
19 | In reflection , Nicholson remembers that apart from the task of writing a film about a new subject on which there was very little in the way of written research material , it also came at a time when he was going through his divorce . |
20 | He also hinted at a release of a new machine next year . |
21 | His little show would n't stand much chance of survival if it even hinted at a bad ‘ season ’ to come . |
22 | He then worked at a Salmon Farm near Fort William before joining Douglas Reyburn , where he now concentrates on new developments and quality control . |
23 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
24 | He had an idea that he would find himself another flat , and he actually called at a number of agencies in the Bayswater area and asked for their lists . |