Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.

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1 However , after some time had passed , and I had exhausted the tasks which could usefully be achieved with the implements I happened to have at hand , Miss Kenton was evidently still outside .
2 ‘ Something instantly circulated through me like an essence of fire , and striding with wider steps I determined to go at once for my model , to begin tomorrow and to make the most of my actual situation .
3 Claudia caught back the angry words she wanted to hurl at him .
4 ‘ St Louis Music was one of the companies I went to see at that time , and it felt like Ampeg , especially , was home for me .
5 In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead .
6 Indeed , the last straw as far as Coleman was concerned was when Hurley took a group of his Lebanese CIs , whose identities he needed to protect at all costs , to lunch down the street at a café full of officials from the Bulgarian Embassy .
7 Roberts ' student days coincided with the depression and to finance his studies he had to work at night and on Saturdays in a bakery store .
8 And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities .
9 In contemporary eyes the theft was no wrong , no crime ; for it was the saint 's own wish — and the happy outcome , and the miracles she came to perform at Conques , proved that there was the home where she wished to dwell .
10 There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end .
11 They had so many men they had to start at the other end and
12 Look at the , look at the miles you had to walk at !
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