Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 2 | At the age of 30 , I suddenly found myself at a turning point in my life . |
| 3 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 4 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
| 5 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 6 | Tony Coton apparently embraced him at the end and gave him soime words of encouragement . |
| 7 | Shadow ministers who visited Washington thus found themselves at the centre of considerable attention , and were probed in detail on their thinking over a range of issues . |
| 8 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 9 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 10 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 11 | I just thrown something at the erm |
| 12 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 13 | He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat . |
| 14 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 15 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |
| 16 | Yes , I just saw you at the crossroads you see |
| 17 | Sir , May I express through your columns Sends a Cow 's gratitude to the many people in our beleaguered industry who generously supported us at the Royal Show this year . |
| 18 | Both the Aurora Hotel and Labrador Inn were fully booked and the cab driver finally deposited them at the Royal Inn . |
| 19 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 20 | The Collective State Presidency , after several abortive attempts to meet , also finally endorsed it at the end of a 14-hour session on July 12 ( again not attended by Drnovsek ) , but imposed new demands and deadlines . |
| 21 | Daniel Marsh usually met him at the station , but today Nahum was early . |
| 22 | HOLDER John Parrott yesterday pronounced himself at a career peak after reaching the semi-finals of the Royal Liver Assurance UK Championship at Preston . |
| 23 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 24 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 25 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 26 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 27 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 28 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 29 | Well the Fox prediction tonight is that Oxford United will draw and probably beat them at the Manor . |
| 30 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |