Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 2 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | A typically ambiguous attitude towards foreigners manifested itself at this point . |
| 4 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 5 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 6 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 7 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 8 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 9 | Bernice threw herself at another of the creatures . |
| 10 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 11 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 12 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 13 | Now er Richard rang me at five o'clock yesterday . |
| 14 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 16 | No , Maggie protected herself at all times . |
| 17 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 18 | Maggie said nothing at all . |
| 19 | If you thought ram-raids had nothing at all in common with bungee jumping , you were wrong . |
| 20 | Maggie almost cringed at the outright challenge but Candace said nothing at all . |
| 21 | Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive . |
| 22 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 23 | The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function . |
| 24 | Alain said nothing at all and Jenna had to think fast , keeping as much to the truth as possible . |
| 25 | Nausea overwhelmed her at last . |
| 26 | If Pindar in the Thirteenth Olympian meant anything at all by saying that the Muses breathed sweetly over Corinth , he was not referring to his own day but perhaps to that of the Corinthian Arion who invented the dithyramb . |
| 27 | Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 . |
| 28 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 29 | Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head . |
| 30 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |