Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But another sister followed me at the Dowsons when I left to get married . |
| 2 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 3 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 4 | Our distinguished guests left us at Oban where we returned the following day . |
| 5 | When I drew the attention of the Leader of the Opposition to a previous threat of this kind , made by the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East ( Mr. Nellist ) , the right hon. Gentleman withdrew it at once . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 9 | A genuinely warm welcome awaited us at Les Trois Mousquetaires , our hotel , which is run by the Venet family . |
| 10 | His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession . |
| 11 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 12 | But startling news awaited him at Naples . |
| 13 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 14 | Your welcome letter found me at Launceston at which place I remained two days with Mr. Kerr , Captn Friend etc . |
| 15 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 16 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 17 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 18 | But a quite terrible disappointment awaited her at Stowbridge . |
| 19 | Two hundred thousand folk caught it at Silverstone yesterday … it 's being spread on radio and television even comes through the letterbox with the morning papers … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mr Churchill had nine inch long cigars sent him at Christmas and |
| 22 | The great man put me at my ease at once : " What does your father do ? " |
| 23 | He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree . |
| 24 | A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint . |
| 25 | I climbed the steps up onto the lock and knocked on the door of the lock-keeper 's house , and through great good fortune found him at home . |
| 26 | The Chinese manservant caught me at it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll tell you in God 's good time , as I will about the secret instructions dear Uncle gave me at Hampton Court . ’ |
| 28 | The highly-athletic Lewis bagged him at 197 , stooping and clutching a low drive . |
| 29 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 30 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |