Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I peered at a few of them , identifying Filmer and Daffodil 's Laurentide Ice as a light grey colt with brittle-looking bones , the Lorrimores ' Voting Right as an unremarkable bay , and the Youngs ' Sparrowgrass as a bright chestnut with a white star and sock . |
| 2 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 3 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 4 | The wind and rain beat down on me , and I fell down several times , but finally I arrived at a long , low house , standing rather isolated in the middle of the moor . |
| 5 | I taught at a private primary school for girls and really , compared with what some teachers go through , I had a terribly easy time , but I still could n't cope . |
| 6 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 7 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 8 | I started at a new school after Easter and this may have something to do with it because it was n't as bad before . |
| 9 | I started at a nearby special school when I was 3 . |
| 10 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 11 | I stared at a huge rectangle of light , it was pinkish floating flickering and suddenly I saw … a pig ! |
| 12 | As I sat in front of him , I looked at a poster-sized photo which was on the wall behind him . |
| 13 | Interviewed shortly after the experience by an unknown reporter underneath the bed , she gasped : ‘ God , I was so excited , it reminded me of when I was 13 , of the first time I looked at an unwrapped tampon . |
| 14 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 15 | Once I ran at a fair in the noise |
| 16 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
| 17 | Her face lit up with a delighted smile as she gazed at an abandoned plate of half-eaten sandwiches on a nearby table . |
| 18 | She dabbed at a watery eye . |
| 19 | And er I used to go myself quite a lot er when there were well when there were more than one coming up I 've seen me go into , down in the pullman train from here to er , well we had about five changes I think , fat father had it all marked out so as you changed at a certain place . |
| 20 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
| 21 | ‘ Go and fetch me my baby ! ’ she yelled at an astonished Terry . |
| 22 | In 1891 she taught at a finishing school in Hanover for six months and , after her return to England , at a school in Finsbury Park . |
| 23 | She walked at a leisurely pace to the back of the hold , where she unlocked a control panel and pressed several buttons . |
| 24 | She giggled at a sudden thought . |
| 25 | This is why you started at a safe height . |
| 26 | Even she was surprised at Gedge 's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him . |
| 27 | She stared at a plump tea-kettle like a plump hen above the shopman 's head , and her voice was dreamy as she answered : " Well , keep it for me — will your I … |
| 28 | For a moment she stared at a different Luke . |
| 29 | She looked at a big BMW bike parked by the kerb , then up at a darkened row of tall houses . |
| 30 | You said at an earlier stage in this conversation erm that it 's always the defeated parties who are blamed for starting wars . |