Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 2 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 3 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 4 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 5 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 6 | The War Councils of the gangs had chosen it at random . |
| 7 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 9 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 10 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 11 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 12 | She had given Nina all her cash , and the girl had thrown it at Clive . |
| 13 | Now imagine that instead of sitting behind his desk your boss had met you at the door and ushered you to a seat , then pulled up a chair next to you . |
| 14 | Surely if that tense moment had affected him at all he would not sound so cool and distant now as he reached for Chalon 's reins . |
| 15 | The authorities claimed that the bombs were the work of a " terrorist " student group , but the National Union of Students claimed that police paramilitaries had planted them at Santo Domingo University . |
| 16 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |
| 17 | A few places further down the dale had got it at once , and then it began to advance further up towards us . |
| 18 | Brian Lara , playing only his second Test after 24 one-dayers , did not last long after Wessels had reprieved him at slip first ball , gloving Bosch down the leg side for David Richardson to snatch a magnificent one-handed catch . |
| 19 | Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms ; other had kept them at arms ' length . |
| 20 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 21 | The dog had awakened him at ten to seven with long-drawn howls and now , a quarter of an hour later , he stood on the threshold of Sheila 's bedroom , glowering . |
| 22 | There were the two gold and jewelled boxes Müller had sold him at a staggering profit , considering he had bought them from someone facing criminal charges , and desperate for cash . |
| 23 | Mrs Sweet had kept him at it some time . |
| 24 | The Eli Hoobaka group , involved in the 1985 North/Contra/CBN arms deal , were prime suspects , and the likeliest motive , as Coleman had suspected all along , was that a DEA informant in the Lebanese Forces had identified him at Eurame as a friend of Asmar 's . |
| 25 | The physical resemblance had struck him at once . |
| 26 | And , whereas Charles had left it at that , Michael Banks 's understudy proceeded to tell the author just how much of a massacre the star was making of his play . |
| 27 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 28 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
| 29 | The squall that had flung Trent against the bank had hit them at over one hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 30 | To do nothing might be worse — Allan had greeted them at the house with the news ( fresh from the great oven of rumour , the widow Duff 's at Ballinluig ) that a file of English soldiers had ridden out from Perth . |