Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] at [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I purchased him at 16″ long about six months ago .
2 Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him .
3 That 's how she met him at relatives party .
4 Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons .
5 No she did it at doctors .
6 They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality .
7 I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals .
8 Erm I mean Martin , Martin 's very good and he 'll , you know , stop me there and , and , and go back over it and but it , it , the the was already there so it 's already got you thinking about other things and , you know , things that were completely irrelevant and it confused me at times .
9 He remembered her at moments such as these and felt a twinge of guilt — not a searing kick in the gut — which , he supposed , was something else to be thankful for .
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