Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I negotiated my way to Piccadilly — those illuminations are a splendid sight — and after a few more adventures finally arrived at the Savoy . |
| 32 | We finally arrived at the house . |
| 33 | Wasteland , half-hidden behind hoardings , came into view and Tony soon arrived at the site which had held the theatre . |
| 34 | Karen , who had been warned before she came to Ireland that some things in the household were extremely pukka , nevertheless marvelled at the ease with which Jessica changed her plans , and marvelled at her attitude . |
| 35 | They just knocked at the door and said how would you care to take part ? |
| 36 | She felt sure that Freddie Nash was as in love with her as she was with him for there was hardly a day when they did not manage to meet , often in Jock Hallett 's cottage , where their mutual passion , already discovered at The Angel , seemed to intensify . |
| 37 | However , even Iran 's interest in CENTO dwindled in the 1970s and the Pact finally collapsed at the end of the decade when both Iran and Pakistan withdrew . |
| 38 | He brought with him a bottle of his own herbal remedy for fevers and scarcely looked at the baby before worrying about his fee . |
| 39 | I just stared at the wall . |
| 40 | It ai n't just her face being all bashed up and that — it 's the way she did n't say nothing , but just stared at the floor . |
| 41 | He did not say a word , just stared at the sky . |
| 42 | Bodie just stared at the man , his smooth features touched with sour disdain . |
| 43 | He just stared at the water . |
| 44 | He just stared at the Duchess . |
| 45 | When I 'd finished , I did n't look at Mum and Dad , I just stared at the carpet . |
| 46 | Donna just stared at the box . |
| 47 | He just stared at the tablecloth . |
| 48 | No I just looked at the clock that was all it was |
| 49 | I just looked at the man , I thought , I oh god I ca n't cope with this ! |
| 50 | He just looked at the cookies on the table and at the cake Mama had just frosted . |
| 51 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 52 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |
| 53 | There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals . |
| 54 | He 's certainly saying I find a pattern here because he 's using it , as his pattern to understand and I only just said at the beginning what the , makes the Jews Jewish , what gave them their national character and their , their ethnic identity . |
| 55 | Lucy Downes was in , and soon stood at the door : an attractive , slim , fair-haired woman in her early thirties , dressed in a summerish cotton suit of pale green , with a light-beige mackintosh over her left arm . |
| 56 | The brilliant beams of their torches were like searchlights , swinging wildly for a second , until they finally converged at the back of a container with its door ripped open and lying at a crazy angle . |
| 57 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 58 | A few people ran round to see how she was and he just stood at the window watching with a shotgun . ’ |
| 59 | As soon as he got out and about he was going round the house looking for you and then he just stood at the bottom of the stairs and banged until I took him upstairs and he could have a look round up there and then he realized you were n't there |
| 60 | For the first time the pupils did not work in six groups but just sat at the tables as they chose . |