Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 32 | The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed . |
| 33 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 34 | Her scorn stung him at last . |
| 35 | Danny called her at two that afternoon . |
| 36 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 37 | God and the saints remembered her at last . ’ |
| 38 | The servants had theirs at two , gathered round the scrubbed table in the big kitchen . |
| 39 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 40 | In other words , by the 1770s and after Berton 's reforms , debate had nothing at all to do with audible stick signals , but everything to do with the presence of a conducteur , communicating visually . |
| 41 | Scott Hastings followed him over two minutes later but a try by Mark Seymour levelled it at 12–12 . |
| 42 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |
| 43 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 44 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 45 | There were seven people in our dormitory and I think five were awake ; we all heard the mysterious sounds without any doubt but it appeared that none of the inhabitants of the other dormitories heard anything at all . |
| 46 | The highly-athletic Lewis bagged him at 197 , stooping and clutching a low drive . |
| 47 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 48 | For neither he nor anyone in his following had anything at all apart from the clothes they stood up in and their weapons and horses . |
| 49 | The Archdeacon accused himself at many levels , not the least professional . |
| 50 | Thereafter things improved ; we got several thousand corners while Arse got none at all . |
| 51 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 52 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 53 | Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours . |
| 54 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 55 | Still , rich men had motor vehicles in greater number and in better condition than middling men ; poor men had none at all . |
| 56 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 57 | Has all the nonsense off the field distracted you at all , made your h job harder ? |
| 58 | Newman left it at that . |
| 59 | Dozens turned out to ride the Severn Bore which at some stages was five feet high . |
| 60 | The next morning Dad woke him at eight . |