Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 2 | Meredith smiled to herself at his mounting vehemence . |
| 3 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 4 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 5 | The girl came to him at once , her face a reflection of his own , eyes wide , her teeth biting on her lip . |
| 6 | She might even , he suggested , as they went to the stairs , benefit from a quiet winter with her sister to help and think what joy lay ahead with Oreste brought to her at last . |
| 7 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 8 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 9 | Transvaal , one of the strongest teams in South Africa proved to everyone at Kingsholm that Springbok rugby is still a force . |
| 10 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 11 | As Glass prepared for his forthcoming European tour , Simon Jones talked to him at his home in Greenwich Village about rhythm , transcendence and his dad 's record store . |
| 12 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 13 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 14 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |
| 15 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 16 | William whistled to me at a distance , and Val said ‘ do n't do that , you 'll start an avalanche ’ . |
| 17 | The idea appealed to me at once , a plane full of women who , as soon as they arrived in Corfu would pounce on the natives of the island . |
| 18 | Elizabeth wrote to me at this time . |
| 19 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 20 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |