Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 2 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 3 | The cold held it at bay despite the glow of the flames on his face . |
| 4 | Nigel started a kind of evening shift , that you was there with your kids during the day and then your husband got them at night and you come out and worked at nights , so it |
| 5 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 6 | Therefore the possibility must be that the sender kept it at home , and that there 's more of it there . |
| 7 | Aunt knew her at school ; Aunt went to a posh boarding-school — only for a year or two — and she likes you to know it . |
| 8 | Er , there 's a suggestion that he had mild epilepsy , and they tried to keep it quite , and his father tutored him at home . |
| 9 | Visiting players , Raimundo , the grooms and Alejandro looked at her with ill-concealed lust , but her dead-pan hauteur and Señor Gracias ' large , looming presence kept them at bay . |
| 10 | The watch-alarm woke him at midnight . |
| 11 | I climbed the steps up onto the lock and knocked on the door of the lock-keeper 's house , and through great good fortune found him at home . |
| 12 | And the Bismark , launched as the unsinkable battleship by Hitler , was destroyed after the Reconnaissance Unit spotted her at sea . |
| 13 | Her mother held her at arm 's length and examined her like a piece of merchandise , turning her this way and that , searching for concealed flaws . |