Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] at " in BNC.
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1 | But they were waiting and , into a pause , he mentioned that he 'd met them over at Jimmy 's . |
2 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
3 | No , but eh , another word that was I 've heard used , and it was , actually it was quite annoying because the chap used it , used it wrongly , but I did n't know that he 'd used it wrongly at the time . |
4 | ‘ I wish I 'd understood it more at the time . ’ |
5 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
6 | Jack had also met Tina 's grandad , whose quick mind and sense of humour had won him over at once . |
7 | Finally , he had felt sick at his behaviour and had dropped her off at her home with a feeling of relief that she was not the clinging type and perhaps he could avoid her in future . |
8 | Her father had dropped her off at her best friend 's house … . ’ |
9 | Marc had dropped her off at her flat in the early hours with little more being said between them . |
10 | Their ‘ great weekend ’ as he put it had come to a highly unsatisfactory end yesterday evening , when he had dropped her off at home , and after seeing her in , had ridden off with scarcely a word . |
11 | He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki . |
12 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Leonard said the case against Kearney hinged on his identification by Mr Lewin , who had picked him out at an identity parade . |
13 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
14 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
15 | He had seen her briefly at breakfast and she had n't seemed disturbed about anything . |
16 | Not that she had seen it so at the time . |
17 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
18 | Woodward , the MI5 man , had watched him closely at Northolt . |
19 | A time out procedure had been discussed with the parents and they had used it unsuccessfully at home . |
20 | By the time they had reached Morocco , the Shah and the Queen both believed that Giscard had betrayed them personally at Guadeloupe . |
21 | She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last . |
22 | A diver had found it out at sea trapped beneath the underground storage container from a petrol station , the container having been ripped right out of the ground . |
23 | Alain had walked all over her excuses and her call to Glyn had left her quite at Alain 's mercy — not that he knew it . |
24 | She had taken it well at first herself , somehow understanding that Fernando and Maria Luisa had drawn comfort from each other . |
25 | ‘ I had put it down at this spot and was about to discover , ’ he said . |
26 | When she nodded , he went on , ‘ It would probably have been better if we had discussed it right at the beginning , and certainly when we realised we were becoming attracted to each other . ’ |
27 | She had passed it off at the time , saying , ‘ That 's right , Sarah ! |
28 | Just before the end of term she had strained her back at college . |