Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | March and February we spent on the Brenner , where we lodged at three different farmsteads . |
| 2 | And I say to them ‘ Look , do n't start planning this whole thing on your own from the beginning , go round and talk to the various people you know that are interested and say to them ‘ Look , I 'm planning to try and do this work , or we agreed at such and such a meeting that I would do this work , but I do n't just want to do this on my own , I want to take into account other people 's views . |
| 3 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
| 4 | He made his way back to his native area around Sorn , Muirkirk and Mauchline , where he slept at various farms , including Garfield , Meadowhead and Priesthill . |
| 5 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 6 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 7 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 8 | Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject . |
| 9 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 10 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 11 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 12 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 13 | Mind you , my elder daughter takes a lot more responsibility for herself than I did at that age . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , I look better now than I did at 20 and I 'm still pretty fit . |
| 15 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
| 16 | And it was n't until she 'd finished doing the washing-up , and the kitchen had been cleaned to her satisfaction , that she began at last to simmer down . |
| 17 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 18 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 19 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 20 | Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random . |
| 21 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 22 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 23 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 24 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 25 | would n't you get one in that Princess that you got at first ? |
| 26 | like those certain games that you played at certain seasons of the year . |
| 27 | ‘ Sure and was n't it an act of God that you came at all ? ’ |
| 28 | Right so you looked at this H C L plus C A C O three quite messy . |
| 29 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 30 | I thought we 'd done that , because that that was the remit that we agreed at this table round this table . |