Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 2 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 3 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 4 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 5 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 6 | When he led 3–1 at the mid-session interval , Hendry looked likely to run away with it , but found himself tied at 3–3 before restoring his lead in the seventh . |
| 7 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |
| 8 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 9 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 10 | He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together . |
| 11 | The momentary confusion it caused in their reaction , meant that Satan and Baal missed their swiftly moving target by inches , as they found themselves snapping at empty air in mid-leap . |
| 12 | I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was . |
| 13 | In this particular interview irony was continuously deployed against almost any remark other boys made which hinted at any involvement with the text . |
| 14 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 15 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 16 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 17 | R. McNeil Alexander of Cambridge University learnt what happens at that speed : the accelerations and slowdowns fluctuate too wildly , and the changes in gravitational energy diminish . |
| 18 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 19 | So she allowed herself to return at last . |
| 20 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 21 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 22 | Down below , in the third class , James Flanagan , a Primitive Methodist minister who began his working life at seven and taught himself to read at twenty-one , preached and ‘ frequently pleaded with the God of earth and sea ’ for a safe journey . |
| 23 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 24 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
| 25 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 26 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 27 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 28 | " You and I can share , " Andrew would say to Nicandra , and to her the idea , particularly if it was a difficult horse , made her feel at one with him . |
| 29 | Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all . |
| 30 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |