Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 2 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 3 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 4 | I glanced at Lili thinking that she must know and would somehow reveal what was disturbing him . |
| 5 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
| 6 | I 've got a calendar from the day I start shooting , and I start crossing off the days the way I did at high school , waiting for summer vacation to begin . ’ |
| 7 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 8 | Brightness shares the pool with two dolphins , and another Beluga whale , called Yegor , which arrived at Laspi Bay 10 days ago , from the dolphinarium in Novorossysk , Russia . |
| 9 | I refer especially to the fact that Mr. Thorpe had access to two general practitioners and thus to two separate decision-making processes , which arrived at different conclusions . |
| 10 | The first attack , which happened at Mithian Downs , was discovered on Saturday evening , when the horse suffered a wound which appeared to have been made with a sharp instrument . |
| 11 | Mimms is now with his ninth League club , a nomadic journey which began at lowly Halifax , reached a dead-end as Neville Southall 's understudy at Everton and hit its nadir at Tottenham . |
| 12 | As they entered , the cat leapt clear of the tangle of antique furniture which lay at crazy angles , fractured arms and legs like a grotesque mockery of a holocaust scene . |
| 13 | Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ . |
| 14 | Sleep could be divided into a number of different phases which recurred at regular intervals throughout the night . |
| 15 | Loddiges found an outlet for his considerable artistic talent in the publication of the nursery 's periodical , the Botanical Cabinet , illustrating plants grown in the nursery , which appeared at monthly intervals between 1817 and 1833 . |
| 16 | The Queen 's Way , which ran at right angles to the King 's Way , was to have a massive terminal station at its head , dominating Connaught Circus and second in importance only to the Viceroy 's palace on the Raisina Acropolis at the head of King 's Way . |
| 17 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 18 | She gazed at little Ivan , bent down to kiss him . |
| 19 | One group holds those who read at low levels but who are ‘ doing as well as can be expected ’ . |
| 20 | It was William and Hugh who led the foresters and verderers to search the houses of suspects for evidence and arrest offenders , and who presided at special inquests on Forest offences , and at the local Forest courts . |
| 21 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 22 | Trained by Richard Hannon , Lemon Souffle has n't run since she scored at scintillating victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket in July . |
| 23 | like those certain games that you played at certain seasons of the year . |
| 24 | As the man with some previous experience of CAA hearings , it was Randolph Fields who arrived at Civil Aviation House in Kingsway , London , on the first day of the hearing to present the case for the newly inaugurated Virgin Atlantic Airways . |
| 25 | She remembered the strange , thin little child , with her sad eyes , who arrived at Green Gables five years ago , and she started crying quietly . |
| 26 | She toiled at unending tasks . |
| 27 | She vanished at full tilt towards the kitchen-garden and the orchards . |
| 28 | ‘ Haff you heard at aal apout a maan caald Menzies ? ’ one asked the other in a broad parody of the Gaelic accent . |
| 29 | Briton who swore at Saudi workers escapes flogging |
| 30 | Clacton police want to hear from a ginger-haired man , aged about 18 , who called at nearby Branwhite 's garage about 8.45 pm to eliminate him from their inquiries . |