Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 2 | The BP flotation in 1987 coincided with a stock market collapse , so that when the shares started trading they stood at 88p — well below the partly paid offer price of 120p — and investors stood to lose heavily . |
| 3 | As soon as he had come she pushed at him to move , all efficiency . |
| 4 | When the T'ang had gone they stood at the river 's edge . |
| 5 | When she had gone he looked at his watch , and hissed . |
| 6 | All at once she became achingly aware of the thinness of the cotton shirt that skimmed down over her thighs , the way the deep V where she had left it unbuttoned at the neck gave glimpses of the top curve of her breasts , and she immediately backed away . |
| 7 | Finally , ten hours after I had started I arrived at Tocumen airfield , back in one of the least pleasant cities in the Western hemisphere . |
| 8 | Oh I li well I , I 've had a lot of moves dear in my time I tell you I , first of all when I first got married I lived at Bishop 's Stortford , then from Bishop 's Stortford I went to erm Stansted in rooms cos I , you know we could n't get a place and from there I had one of my sons oh hello time , eleven o'clock just struck what 's the day ? |
| 9 | With a heart beating as if it wanted to explode I looked at the two dead men ; I had never seen either of them before . |