Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 2 | Erm erm can I just say , just on the on the basis of Mr 's map erm I think that proves the point that er that I suggested at the outset of the discussion erm on this issue , that if you look at the distribution of settlements there outside the greenbelt , there 's nothing there that suggests that any of the particular sectors ought to be discounted . |
| 3 | In 2 we looked at the details of formal lexical and grammatical connections between sentences in monologue . |
| 4 | Drivers Ronnie Peterson and Jacky Ickx were n't convinced by the car 's handling characteristics , so unconvinced they collided at the first corner . |
| 5 | This he accomplished at the sea-battle of Svold , on 9 September 999 . |
| 6 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 7 | So it was that just after 8.15 on the morning of Monday , May 6th , 1929 I arrived at the Times-Herald editorial offices and found the place locked up tight . |
| 8 | Then she snatched a cigarette from a box , her hand shaking so much she laughed at the difficulty she had in lighting it . |
| 9 | The only real difference was that when the weather was favourable we arrived at the site one hour before dawn to set the nets . |
| 10 | It is important , therefore , not to exaggerate the long-term effects of Anglo-American differences relating to Palestine , however serious they appeared at the time . |
| 11 | In May 1612 he matriculated at the Academy of Geneva and later attended the Calvinist Academy of Saumur . |
| 12 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 13 | In late 1940 he established at the estate of Camphill , near Aberdeen , Scotland , a small residential school for children in need of special care . |
| 14 | In 1941 he enrolled at the Slade , which had been evacuated to Oxford . |
| 15 | All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails . |
| 16 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 17 | We need the money , and from all I heard at the Gaudy , Somerville still deserves it . |
| 18 | As he intended to behave extraordinarily well , she would grow to like and respect him ( he was n't entirely sure she did at the moment ) . |
| 19 | From 1976 to 1981 she worked at the Henley Centre for Forecasting , where she was responsible for UK economics forecasts , and manager of special studies . |
| 20 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 21 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 22 | An Arsenal friend of mine admitted that all he wanted at the moment was for Leeds to catch Scum . |
| 23 | In the reign of Henry II he accounted at the Exchequer for ‘ the pannage of all the forests of England ’ . |
| 24 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |
| 25 | During World War I she worked at the Admiralty on various projects of national importance , including the large-scale production of acetone from starch by fermentation . |
| 26 | The best way , then , to deal with the complaint that psychological-cum-biological theories of the state are too vague is to attempt a combination between these theories and those we reviewed at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 27 | In Chapter 3 we looked at the ‘ politics of variation ’ in a general sense : we asked why feminists would want to study male/female differences in language , and we also looked at the anecdotal tradition of ( often sexist ) comment feminists in the field have inherited — in some cases rather uncritically . |
| 28 | In Chapter 3 we looked at the general interrelation of stylistic effects over a passage of some extent ; in Chapter 2 we considered the " macro-effects " of style as manifested in whole texts . |
| 29 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
| 30 | Mr Donald Dewar , Shadow Scottish Secretary , said Labour had fought an ‘ outstanding campaign ’ which would see it winning more than its present 48 of Scotland 's 72 seats at Westminster ; more , even , than the 50 it held at the last election . |