Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , I knocked at the very weak leg . |
| 2 | Daphne flitted from party to party while I walked at a slightly faster pace from lecture hall to lecture hall , our two paths rarely crossing . |
| 3 | We paused on the small bridge which led to the ticket office , I looked at the now derelict railway cottages which stood silent , lost and forlorn . |
| 4 | She bridled at the coolly assessing tone of his voice . |
| 5 | She gestured at the richly appointed room . |
| 6 | As Lisa popped a breast of chicken into the microwave she glanced at the brightly coloured childish drawings secured by fruit-shaped magnets to the fridge door and her heart turned over with maternal pride . |
| 7 | ‘ You improved at a very disturbing rate , cariad ! ’ |
| 8 | She cringed at the too cheerful sound of her voice . |
| 9 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 10 | and they sold at a very low price and |
| 11 | They arrived at a very large old house . |
| 12 | Loretta refused with a laugh , and they continued at a more sedate pace . |
| 13 | He lived at a very difficult time ; they wanted him back at La Scala , but there was always the possibility that Toscanini would return . |
| 14 | Mr Menzies said the benediction , it seemed at a deliberately dragging pace . |
| 15 | It must have taken Summerchild at least an extra minute in each direction ; as I recall it from those evenings fifteen years ago , he walked at a much more reflective pace , as if slowed by some inner weight . |
| 16 | When he called at a little before one in the morning , he was distinctly cool . |
| 17 | March 1853 and he died at the very early age of thirty-seven , on 29th . |
| 18 | Hitler 's speech had its background in Germany 's strengthened position since the Munich settlement , in his determination to force the pace in foreign policy in 1939 , and — in its tone of heightened aggression towards the Jews — in the anger he felt at the increasingly strong anti-German feeling in the USA and in Britain which the Reichskristallnacht pogrom had greatly fuelled . |
| 19 | He looked at the still slightly smoking hole in the couch , just beside where he 'd sat , then up at the holes in the ceiling . |
| 20 | He stared at the serenely impassioned garden made out of a whirl of yellow brushstrokes , a viridian impasto , a dense mass of furiously feathered lines of blue-green , isolated black pot hooks , the painfully clear orange-red spattering . |
| 21 | In 1979/80 the expenditure per student in polytechnics was 82 per cent of that in the universities : by 1987/88 per capita expenditure in the polytechnics had fallen to 58 per cent of the university figure and by 1989/90 it stood at a little over 50 per cent . |
| 22 | He stood at an unusually high desk in the room into which Merymose ushered Huy , and there was no sign of any other furniture , beyond an open chest containing scrolls . |
| 23 | That said , however , the decisive reason why we now think it right to determine this application on its substantive merits is that we have all three of us arrived at a very clear conclusion upon the case and , moreover , a conclusion reached with particular regard to the very special facts of the case . |