Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 2 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 3 | However , during the initial discussions I hinted at the desirability of video recording or tape recording their science teaching , to examine their use of questioning . |
| 4 | Trying to ignore this assault on my fundamental antinomies I peered at the train set . |
| 5 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 6 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 7 | Table 10.4 examines each of the sectors we identified at the beginning of the appendix . |
| 8 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 9 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |
| 10 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 11 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 12 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 13 | In retrospect it is hard to judge the extent to which the success of this policy ( and , for all the worries it caused at the time , it was a success by comparison with the economy management disasters of the 1960s and 1970s ) was due to good management , and the extent to which it was due to external and internal economic factors outside government control , in particular to the postwar recovery and the stimulus provided by the continuing military activity of the ‘ cold war ’ . |
| 14 | With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword . |
| 15 | From the dead limbs they cried at the moon , pecked at the wind-shattered stubs where winter had stripped the branches from these creeping giants , added their own anger to the screaming from the split and rotting bark . |
| 16 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 17 | His letter written to congratulate his elder brother Lodovico when his engagement was announced , is typical of the sermons he preached at the marriages of so many friends . |
| 18 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
| 19 | There was a beautiful avenue of mimosas I saw at the Gezira when we were walking round . |
| 20 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 21 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
| 22 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 23 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 24 | They both headed the list with the responsibilities they had at the time . |
| 25 | For the next twenty-six years it languished at the back of Bispham Depot , until driven under its own power to the Works in February 1960 for renovation . |
| 26 | For two years he taught at the University of Texas at Austin , and directed the Michener Collection there , before enlisting in the U.S. Naval Reserve for a four year stint . |
| 27 | Navigating along dry forest roads we arrived at the base of Mount Robert . |
| 28 | She picked up another letter , and again read aloud : ‘ I think of you often and of the happy times we had at The Hall , and they were happy times . |
| 29 | All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ . |
| 30 | I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion . |