Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun pl] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jahsaxa narrowed her eyes meaningfully at her in-house security officers . |
| 2 | All of them met their husbands here at the lodge . ’ |
| 3 | We giggled together backstage , boiled up tea in railway compartments on Sundays , grilled ourselves sausages late at night on reversible gas-rings . |
| 4 | They threw my meals in at me . |
| 5 | She opened her eyes wide at him , teasing . |
| 6 | ‘ And as I intimated just a moment ago , ’ his voice was coldly mocking as he threw her words back at her , ‘ I need a haircut . ’ |
| 7 | And he mantled his wings hugely at the approaching Men , calling out angrily at them with his harsh voice . |
| 8 | She threw his words back at him with a different emphasis . |
| 9 | They began their discussions immediately at the airfield at 10 am and the conference was concluded by noon . |
| 10 | Edwards raised his eyebrows quizzically at Mrs Girton , who shrugged . |
| 11 | The stairs creaked even where he placed his feet carefully at the wall side and the ludicrous self-portrait of himself as a householder properly armed with a poker going upstairs to hunt burglars made him stop to tauten his thoughts . |
| 12 | They fought , and ran , and stood to fight again , tiring , separated , driven now like hunted hares , until Isambard called his men back at the brook and let them rest at last . |
| 13 | She bit her bottom lip , brought her arms together at her chest so that her hands met at her mouth . |
| 14 | An unpaid tax bill instilled fears into the companies who dealt with Red Rhino and everyone slapped their bills in at the same time . |
| 15 | In fact some of them swore that they saw a phantom train roaring into or out of Box Hill Tunnel ; of course the sceptics laughed their heads off at such a far-fetched tale but the more psychic were inclined to accept the men 's story . |
| 16 | She looked straight back at him and , smoothing the skirt of her blue wool suit , crossed her legs elegantly at the ankles . |
| 17 | I cried my eyes out at that ! |
| 18 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 19 | And perhaps her friend was right , Lisa thought to herself now as she sank back in her armchair in front of the gas fire , put her feet up at last and took a mouthful of her cocoa . |
| 20 | But these four stations on the African continent aimed their programmes exclusively at white settler communities ; not until the Second World War was wireless broadcasting for Africans established . |
| 21 | After several more sessions out in the country , Hoomey got the hand of it , and learned that , even if he could n't stop , he could steer , and that sitting on Bones 's enormous flights through the atmosphere was comparatively easy once you got used to it , far easier than poor Jazz 's problem of trying to stay aboard when Spot , cantering quite easily towards the jump , put his anchors out at the last minute and stopped dead . |
| 22 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 23 | They were six-five ahead and Drew and Ricky had their heads together at half-time . |
| 24 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
| 25 | So they finally ended their lives together at the isolated Cheddar Gorge beauty spot in the Mendip Hills , in Somerset . |
| 26 | Angrily , she pushed her thoughts away at the same time as she pushed her bowl and chopsticks away . |
| 27 | The teacher had noticed that Martha held her books almost at arm 's length . |
| 28 | She flashed her eyes up at him , hatred in their depths . |
| 29 | Matron , sitting tidily in the chair on the far side of him , allowed herself a barely audible sigh of impatience and looked pointedly at her watch , and Briant slid his eyes sideways at her and smiled slightly , raising his eyebrows at Kegan 's back view . |