Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 2 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 3 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 4 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
| 5 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 6 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 7 | Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn . |
| 8 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
| 9 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 10 | On Crag Hill I stopped at the cairn to look down on Dentdale spread below me , Helms Knott , the Howgills and the distant forms of Cross Fell , Dun Fell and , facing me , the long ridge of Barbondale . |
| 11 | The third congress of journalists which met at the end of January simply stressed the importance of party leadership of the press and made no practical survey of what was actually happening . |
| 12 | Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue . |
| 13 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 14 | But in the 1860s and 1870s the development of the steam trawler , the use of ice for preservation , and the exploitation of the rail network signalled the arrival of cheap cod and made possible the fish-and-chip shops which multiplied at the end of the century to furnish an important source of protein to the working class . |
| 15 | It is important to note that the political party system in the Republic of Ireland is largely based on the divisions in the national-popular consciousness which occurred at the time of the Irish civil war . |
| 16 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |
| 17 | The sum insured applicable to a claim is the figure which applied at the date of the loss , i.e. the sum insured at inception/renewal date plus the appropriate index-linking to the date of loss . |
| 18 | The growth of European Community funded farming has increased losses which began at the beginning of the century . |
| 19 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 20 | Darlington ladies held Boston well away from home and on the two rinks who played at the Morrison Centre . |
| 21 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 22 | Four porters who worked at the Heathrow Penta Hotel refused to meet or greet guests , deliver keys to rooms or move luggage if a guest transferred to a new room . |
| 23 | Jose Ramon , a new chef who arrived at the Guernica two months ago , will hopefully maintain these high standards . |
| 24 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 25 | Table 10.4 examines each of the sectors we identified at the beginning of the appendix . |
| 26 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 27 | In this study we aimed at the investigation of platelet activating factor synthesis in the gastric juice of normal healthy volunteers in vivo , in basal condition , and in response to pentagastrin . |
| 28 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 29 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |
| 30 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |