Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought it was worth a try , so I drove up here , booked myself in at a hotel down the road . |
| 3 | He handed it over at a rendezvous — but Elizabeth was kept in her captor 's car boot for another two hours before being dumped . |
| 4 | In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance . |
| 5 | The lean hand gripping his arm thrust him in at a door in the long encrustation of buildings that clung to the curtain wall on the sunny side , where the best light fell and the day lingered longest . |
| 6 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 7 | The pair had star quality written all over their faces as they hammed it up at a Buddy Holly tribute . |
| 8 | Branson took him in at a glance . |
| 9 | Blind panic sent her off at a stumbling run . |
| 10 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 11 | So he turned into Gambrinus 's and sat himself down at a small ironwork and marble table , and asked for some water . |
| 12 | The boats picked us up at a pre-arranged rendezvous and we sped off again to do a foot patrol on the lough shore road . |