Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have two grown-up children and one grandchild and I enjoy big family gatherings — the Italian influence again — with everyone seated at a round table . |
| 2 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 3 | I pawed at the hairy form . |
| 4 | I shouted at the unfortunate Harry . |
| 5 | Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls . |
| 6 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 7 | I trained at the Royal and I 'll be able to get you a bed immediately . ’ |
| 8 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 9 | I lapped at the warm , rich blood ; very nice , very fresh . |
| 10 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 11 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 12 | One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed . |
| 13 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 14 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 15 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 16 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 17 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 18 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 19 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 20 | I taught at a private primary school for girls and really , compared with what some teachers go through , I had a terribly easy time , but I still could n't cope . |
| 21 | Just then , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 22 | After breakfast the next day , someone knocked at the front door . |
| 23 | Ten minutes ago I knocked at the front door , waited in the street . |
| 24 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 25 | Over a hasty meal , I glanced at the Official Guide to County Meath , a gift from the manager . |
| 26 | I glanced at the answering machine in the corner and saw that the red light was glowing . |
| 27 | Once more I glanced at the large flour mill , temporarily closed , despite the addition of a new silvery turbine engine to take the place of water power . |
| 28 | Probably be glad to get rid of her , she thought gloomily , then looked up sharply as someone rapped at the back door . |
| 29 | We need the money , and from all I heard at the Gaudy , Somerville still deserves it . |
| 30 | He said I waved at the poor man like a loony . |