Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that song that you mentioned that you quoted at the beginning of the programme ‘ Look into the Irish , the Welsh and the Scot , you 'll find he 's a stinker as likely as not ’ is how it went on . |
| 2 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 3 | Her brows rose as she glared at him . |
| 4 | Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen . |
| 5 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 6 | But I found when I looked at my books a week ago , or a fortnight ago , I thought , oh I know this , I know this , but it 's not until you get into it that you think shit ! |
| 7 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 8 | My heart sank as I looked at it . |
| 9 | Then her heart sank as he grinned at Doreen . |
| 10 | His eyes flickered as he looked at her , and she knew he was searching his mind for a joke . |
| 11 | I stopped when she hissed at me to shut up and let her get on with it . |
| 12 | The judge gave Vernage five life sentences and recommended that he serve at least 25 years . |
| 13 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 14 | I just said ‘ Yes ? ’ and as I dropped the pen she 'd handed me back into her bag , I noticed that she carried at least two fat rolls of ten-pound notes secured with circular gold clips shaped like salamanders , or maybe alligators . |
| 15 | Sharpe had no watch , but he estimated that he stayed at the edge of the wood for two hours during which time he counted twenty-two guns and forty-eight supply wagons . |
| 16 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you might like to go to Lindisfarne — Holy Island , ’ he added as she stared at him blankly . |
| 18 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 19 | ‘ The problems came when I protested at the removing without consultation of Christmas bonus pay and the halving of overtime paid while accompanying residents on holidays . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Strawberry kisses , ’ he murmured as she stared at him , bemused , ‘ delectable . ’ |
| 21 | However , I realized if I looked at it underwater , it was bigger . |
| 22 | It happened that I called at Beatrice 's house the last time Aunt Nessy visited there — the time before she was banished . |
| 23 | After a week , Val came back , tearful and shaky , and declared that she meant at least to earn her living , and would take a course in shorthand-typing . |
| 24 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 25 | I reckoned that I had at least one brigade of white cells on the start line with other brigades available as required . |
| 26 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 27 | I turned and we looked at each other . |
| 28 | Jinny did not understand , but the boy 's head turned and he stared at the Hare-woman . |
| 29 | Her face flamed and she glared at him , wondering if there was n't a grain of truth in what he said . |
| 30 | The orange light flared and he jabbed at it . |