Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 3 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 4 | TED AND Callahan and I had agreed to meet at Jocko 's at 8.30 in the morning . |
| 5 | Trammelled by my exhaustive cataloguing of habit , which I had continued to practise at Mr Broadhurst 's insistence , my visual escapades had become fully manageable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | It was suggested she 'd gone to live at Newport in Gwent , but she was never located . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 12 | And many were the times when she had wanted to bawl at him , ‘ And who was to blame for that ? |
| 13 | The Kurd , whom she had expected to flee at the first shaking of the ground , was staying with them . |
| 14 | The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car . |
| 15 | But the woman 's insults rankled , as did her earlier insolence — for her contemptuous glance had raked Theda 's person when she had dared to ask at the Feathers for a room for the night . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All she had left to clutch at was the memory of how she had felt . |
| 18 | Harold Shoosmith , the bachelor who had retired to live at Quetta , the corner house , was one whose kind heart was moved by this newcomer . |
| 19 | Situation : A and B are friends who had planned to meet at 6 o " clock last night to see a film . |
| 20 | ‘ Many who had planned to stay at home will now go away , others will feel they can afford a second holiday . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was an only child who had learned to read at three and quickly began giving characters to the numbers in arithmetic because he had no one to play with . |
| 23 | You do so at an unfamiliar garage and then discover that the one you had planned to stop at was closed . |
| 24 | We 'd arranged to meet at her house . ’ |
| 25 | Once we had begun to look at particular steps in the biochemical cascade in more detail , however , I became persuaded that reasonably specific inhibitors might help cast light on relevant mechanisms . |
| 26 | Wedgie [ Tony Benn ] then made what I found a very effective speech , pointing out that we had got to look at the problem in domestic as well as international terms . |
| 27 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 28 | 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 — |
| 29 | They had arranged to meet at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 30 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |