Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |
| 2 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 3 | Now she let it down and tied it at the nape of her neck with a scarf . |
| 4 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 5 | It put the wind up me , to tell you the truth , so I 've just brought Hawkbit along and left it at that . " |
| 6 | Alex attended a similar establishment for boys ten miles away and visited her at every weekend exeat . |
| 7 | And then she abruptly pulled away and held him at arm 's length . |
| 8 | He seized a brick desperately and threw it at Yussuf . |
| 9 | She walked over and joined him at the table . |
| 10 | Her question was answered a few minutes later when Matthew himself came outside and saw her at the window . |
| 11 | He tore it off and threw it at the wastepaper basket . |
| 12 | I picked it up and aimed it at him . |
| 13 | In 1809 William Bullock moved to London and in 1812 George sold up and joined him at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly . |
| 14 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 15 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 16 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 17 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 18 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 19 | Claudia stared at him blankly , unable to take it in for several minutes , and when she did she cried out and launched herself at him , her hands raised . |
| 20 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 21 | In interview , he said he was outside the public house when Mr. Gilbert pulled a bottle out and swung it at him . |
| 22 | The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later . |
| 23 | Owing to pressure of work , Brush evidently purchased sixteen body shells from U.E.C. for the larger cars , which they fitted out and trucked themselves at Loughborough . |
| 24 | A man in the cab leaned out and shouted something at her as the fire engine churned past , but she could n't hear what . |
| 25 | Billy rowed across and followed her at a discreet distance . |
| 26 | The French and Norman lands matter most to Waleran , who can wonder that he 's gone over there and made himself at least acceptable to Geoffrey , rather than risk being dispossessed . |
| 27 | Entering the cafe , the Blackshirts went upstairs and showed themselves at the window , which provoked a hail of missiles from the crowd below . |
| 28 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |