Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother Edward came much later , when I was fourteen , so he hardly entered my childhood at all . |
| 2 | Despite her fear she caught her breath at such beauty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | The French shared their reluctance at this time to sink their identities in a United States of Europe . |
| 8 | He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together . |
| 9 | Not all Jewish merchants in Tangier would made their fortune at any price , however . |
| 10 | The car made its debut at that year 's Monaco Grand Prix with Cliff Allison ( GB ) and Graham Hill ( GB ) behind the wheel of the two entered cars . |
| 11 | No Greek writer travelled to Rome , and no Greek historian told her history at any length . |
| 12 | He gestured his dissent at this and in no time the crowd were clamouring for the umpire to reverse the decision , which he did . |
| 13 | She shook her head at that , denying it with vigour . |
| 14 | Sophie shook her head at this . |
| 15 | The schools dominated in the loose and the youth side showed their inexperience at this type of play . |
| 16 | He half turned his head at that . |
| 17 | He also showed his face at some of the later Congresses , but he does not appear to have made any active contribution to any of them . |
| 18 | Basil Hallward shook his head at this , but Dorian laughed . |
| 19 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 20 | Miss Logan concealed her astonishment at this curious lecture , but felt bound to enquire further . |
| 21 | She carefully concealed her satisfaction at this first use of the word ‘ our ’ . |
| 22 | Kelly hung her head at this unusually long speech . |
| 23 | Gabriel scratched his head at that . |
| 24 | That crazy snob d'Arquebus curled his lip at such a response . |
| 25 | Sally-Anne tossed her head at this , and repeated that it was all nothing — ‘ And really you should not make such a fuss over so little ’ — but all the same she was happy to let Matey help her up to bed ; she felt strangely weak , and the thought of Sunday lunch and washing up , and all the work to be done before the day was over , made her feel worse than ever . |
| 26 | Let us begin our analysis of that society , which reached its apogee at this period , with the appearance of the clothes its members wore , the interiors which surrounded them . |
| 27 | Her long , strong legs folded under her and she sat down on the rug in the hallway and sobbed to her heart 's content , while Alex patted her shoulder and wondered if he really understood his sister at all . |
| 28 | Bond he no longer has the Princess Di haircut by the way reorganised his team at half time , pushing former Quaker Alan Walsh further forward , but Quakers had the perfect answer . |
| 29 | It was only a matter of moments before one man twitched his nose at some unfamiliar scent , and turned to see what it was . |
| 30 | Martin Postle splices detail and generalisation , so that he can move deftly from a meticulous account of Reynolds ' studio practice to the perceptive observation that ‘ it was not Reynolds ’ style but his lack of style which characterised his work at this time as sitters danced , flirted , embroidered , sacrificed to pagan deities , or merely meditated , in the manner of Guido Reni , Titian , Van Dyck or even Michelangelo ’ . |