Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here on this sea-scoured coast she had at last found a place which she was content to call home . |
| 2 | In the last chapter we looked at some of the effects on people of knowing that a death is likely to occur and some of the anticipated grief reactions that can be recognized . |
| 3 | In practice we proceeded at absolute snail 's pace , and every step that we took was hindered by constant misunderstanding , suspicion and argument . |
| 4 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 5 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 6 | For a second they glared at each other . |
| 7 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 8 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 9 | There was a young woman there , an attractive girl he guessed at twenty-two , who had been introduced to him as Suzanne Simonis . |
| 10 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 11 | On his return he settled at last under the protection of Cuthbert , first in the saint 's own resting place at Durham , then in a hermitage under the protection of Durham cathedral priory at Finchale by the river Wear — and the rest of his life is filled with his prayers and visions and miracles at Finchale . |
| 12 | Most of my splicing I did at random , automatically . |
| 13 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 14 | For a moment they stared at each other — and , though the anger and hostility in the room were almost visible , the memory of that long-ago day hung in the air between them . |
| 15 | For a moment they stared at each other , while the klaxon remorselessly threw out a yard and a half of raucousness every two seconds . |
| 16 | He turned to look at her again , and for a long moment they stared at each other , irreconcilable strangers either side of a barrier ; and yet Sara had the odd feeling that some part of her longed to understand Matthew Preston , to agree with him , to acquiesce in his decisions . |
| 17 | For a long moment they stared at each other and it was as if the body language they had shared in the pool had ceased to be a game and the strained politeness of the last week had never been . |
| 18 | Sophie looked aghast and for a moment they stared at each other . |
| 19 | Then for another moment they looked at each other . |
| 20 | For a moment they looked at each other square in the eye . |
| 21 | For a moment they looked at each other , and then they were in each other 's arms again . |
| 22 | For a moment they looked at each other in the penetrating light of early morning . |
| 23 | That apart Derby are unstoppable at home and it must be some consolation to Arthur Cox that the twelve million pound team he assembled at last looks the part . |
| 24 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 25 | And er I can remember one day a driver , Len his name was and he er he said to the inspector , oh he says er I 've been through Corfe Junction he said at sixty miles an hour ! |
| 26 | He explains that an Englishman he knew at Czech radio used always to get the usual toast na zdrave ( health ) wrong , confusing it with nadraži , meaning ‘ railway station ’ . |
| 27 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
| 28 | For the DIY approach to building a network station I looked at two contrasting approaches to installing a network interface adaptor : the Xircom Pocket Adaptor and the Inter EtherExpress card . |
| 29 | As a four-year-old she won all her four races , including the Coronation Cup , the Champion Stakes and the Jockey Club Cup ; in her other race she started at 55–1 on to defeat a solitary opponent . |
| 30 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |