Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] at an " in BNC.

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1 Eleanor started hinting at an affair .
2 The couple met when Heath stopped to help at an accident outside her home near Pontypridd , Mid-Glamorgan , the court heard .
3 The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela .
4 Harry had realized at an early stage , however , that he would need to keep a clear head if he was to remember all he was told .
5 Count Tolstoy 's co-defendant , Nigel Watts had said at an earlier hearing that he had never intended to push the whole debt on to the historian .
6 She was , as Clara had discovered at an early age , colossally inconsistent ; and sometimes Clara thought that it might have been easier to live with a true religious fanatic , whose fads and fancies would be at least predictable and well-marshalled , with the backing of some kind of external authority , from which there could be some appeal .
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