Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 2 | The snaps these machines took never portrayed her at her best , but they would give the general impression . |
| 3 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 4 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 5 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 6 | Dinah , who had not liked him at Hampstead , did not like him now ; but the information he brought was useful . |
| 7 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 8 | If he had been indifferent to Catherine , if he had not loved her at least as much , more , than she did herself , she could not have done it . |
| 9 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 10 | ‘ If you had not lost him at cards , would he have got into prison ? |
| 11 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |
| 12 | Wycliffe had not seen her at first . |
| 13 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 14 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 15 | For the life of her she could n't say the expected thing and it hurt with surprising depth that this man had known her father when she herself had not known him at all . |
| 16 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 17 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
| 18 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 19 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 20 | His words had n't affected me at all . |
| 21 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 22 | The fire had n't touched them at all . ’ |
| 23 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 24 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 25 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 26 | Bernice had n't seen them at first : their black silk cloaks merged into the darkness beyond the doorway , and only the jerky movements of the red-painted muzzles of their stubby blasters revealed their location . |
| 27 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 28 | Surely he had n't found it at last and with a girl less than half his age , intelligent but uneducated , promiscuous and burdened with an illegitimate child . |
| 29 | Or did , ’ she qualified — the last few letters had n't mentioned him at all . |
| 30 | She had n't known him at all . |