Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What drew me south at last I can not say . |
| 2 | I also tried my hand at professional decorating . |
| 3 | My brother Edward came much later , when I was fourteen , so he hardly entered my childhood at all . |
| 4 | The Court dismissed their appeal at first instance but they appealed ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [ 1992 ] , The Times , 23 June ) . |
| 5 | Fred says that was the last sighting of the spirit of Jed Knighton so his soul found its peace at last . |
| 6 | Despite her fear she caught her breath at such beauty . |
| 7 | But , to their credit , the Fifties sustained its interest at maximum heat . |
| 8 | Despite the many improvements in state provision Eva found her time at social services a great eye opener . |
| 9 | Polly found her tongue at last and spoke with all the frosty dignity she could muster . |
| 10 | Lucy found her tongue at last . |
| 11 | She could picture him so clearly , sitting waiting at the airport , that she ground her teeth at one point , made spitting noises . |
| 12 | The emphasis with the old , as with any other age-group , should be on prevention before the need for cure arises , and some elderly people suffer quite unnecessarily from the ‘ silent ’ types of illness which show no dramatic symptoms in their early stages ( such as anaemia ) , and which might well be diagnosed if they visited their doctor at six-monthly intervals when feeling at all ‘ off colour ’ . |
| 13 | Both the Prime Minister and the Home Office minister , John Patten , tried their hands at epigrammatic contributions to the message being broadcast . |
| 14 | At the age of 23 in 1938 he captained his country at one game and , more surprisingly , his county , Warwickshire in the other . |
| 15 | ‘ He phoned his office at nine to cancel all appointments . |
| 16 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
| 17 | Amiss was as insulted as he was relieved at how little space was given in the newspapers to the injury sustained by J. Amiss , waiter : only two of the papers mentioned his name at all and one of them misspelt it . |
| 18 | I tried his office at four o'clock and then his house at five , without success . |
| 19 | After the war , when he was out of the army , he tried his hand at several things , and they were all pretty much a disaster . |
| 20 | When he tried his hand at another murder and the proposed victim turned out to be a young Anglo-Prussian only just arrived in Vienna , it seemed likely you were the man . |
| 21 | had , but he said it were twenty in the end and then he changed his mind at twenty five so |
| 22 | You are a professional photographer , and at one time you pursued your calling at certain two-storey premises in — um — Silmour Street , is that correct ? ’ |
| 23 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 24 | By 1877 Cook was successful enough to appoint sub-agents in several towns in northern England who sold their tours at 2½ per cent commission . |
| 25 | Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’ |
| 26 | Since the noises in the House of Commons in 1927 and 1928 , the bishops sanctioned or winked their eyes at various modifications which were sensible and did not mind that they were illegal . |
| 27 | The French shared their reluctance at this time to sink their identities in a United States of Europe . |
| 28 | She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable . |
| 29 | Determined not to hold Penry up , she made her purchases at such speed that she was outside , waiting , when he came striding down the narrow street to collect her . |
| 30 | He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together . |