Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I started at a nearby special school when I was 3 . |
| 9 | I stared at a huge rectangle of light , it was pinkish floating flickering and suddenly I saw … a pig ! |
| 10 | As I sat in front of him , I looked at a poster-sized photo which was on the wall behind him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once I ran at a fair in the noise |
| 14 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
| 15 | Her face lit up with a delighted smile as she gazed at an abandoned plate of half-eaten sandwiches on a nearby table . |
| 16 | She dabbed at a watery eye . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Go and fetch me my baby ! ’ she yelled at an astonished Terry . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She walked at a leisurely pace to the back of the hold , where she unlocked a control panel and pressed several buttons . |
| 22 | She giggled at a sudden thought . |
| 23 | This is why you started at a safe height . |
| 24 | Even she was surprised at Gedge 's tenacious loyalty to her ideology when she called at a local shop with him . |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | For a moment she stared at a different Luke . |
| 27 | She looked at a big BMW bike parked by the kerb , then up at a darkened row of tall houses . |
| 28 | This , she left at a critical time . |
| 29 | Then a long glass appeared in her hand , and a straw , and she sipped at an amber drink , and ice cubes clinked . |
| 30 | Six hours into the journey , and several thousand feet higher , we stopped at a small village to quench our thirst and refuel the jeep from rusty milk-cans . |