Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 2 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 3 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 4 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 5 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 6 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 7 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 8 | The man brought out a photograph and held it at arm 's length , walking toward them . |
| 9 | She drew in deeply and exhaled through her nose , then snapped the cigarette briskly from her mouth and pointed it at him with a flourish . |
| 10 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 11 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 12 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 13 | Each of these master gangs had ‘ satellites ’ , smaller groups that supported them at need and stayed in the general area . |
| 14 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 15 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 16 | ‘ Anybody could have driven it to Exeter and dumped it at the station without leaving traces that would be discovered by anything short of a pukka forensic examination . ’ |
| 17 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 18 | In fury he scooped up the gelatinous mess and hurled it at Fairbrother , who kicked him in the balls . |
| 19 | I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's . |
| 20 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 21 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 22 | Farouk capped his pen and pointed it at her . |
| 23 | She picked up a Biro off his desk and levelled it at him . |
| 24 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 25 | And now she did what she had promised herself she would do , and lifted her foot and aimed it at the nun 's shin . |
| 26 | We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’ |
| 27 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 28 | The real Susan Bishopric raised her deserved award and swung it at her head . |
| 29 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 30 | It was all she had left now , so she had thanked her sister and left it at that . |