Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 2 | As she committed her life once more to God 's service at the conclusion of one of the big meetings an old retired officer who had been specially invited knelt next to her at the mercy seat . |
| 3 | As a small boy I recall a very old gamekeeper ( at least , he seemed old to me at the time ) talking of gypsies having tame stoats in captivity . |
| 4 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 5 | They seemed expensive to her at nineteen shillings and elevenpence but the small boy loved them . |
| 6 | I was sorry I got involved in it at one point ! |
| 7 | It so happens I spent most of mine at the cinema . |
| 8 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 9 | Ronni felt proud of him at that moment . |
| 10 | Och , I ca n't remember , Diazepam , took one of them at , whether it 's nerves or what |
| 11 | So excited had Mr Wolski become — though he kept quiet about it at the Zoo — that he had taken down his atlas of the British Isles so he could mark off the various places the eagle was seen . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw both of them at club functions in the run-up to Christmas , and there was no hint of this . ’ |
| 13 | Er clearly when we have got that situation , we do n't just simply put the numbers in and press the button and you get the answer out at the end , er the people who er did this for us at the time , er are professional er transportation consultants er and given that the key er one of the key outputs from this model was the effect of a er a bypass , then this is something that we looked at in in some detail as well as er the actual effects that the model was putting out . |
| 14 | Soon after his return , Sunderland put six past him at Roker Park ( ’ he was choked ’ says gran ) with half Close House in the stand . |
| 15 | I wondered if you remembered any of them at all . |
| 16 | we had some of them at home , shall I get one of these ? |
| 17 | A friend fashioned this for him at negligible cost . |
| 18 | " Cowslip is in the great burrow , " said one of them at length . |
| 19 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 20 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |