Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since my mother had explained to me at Culloden Moor long ago that the English and the Scots were different peoples , I had been intensely proud of my Scottish origins and of Scotland 's history as an independent nation . |
| 2 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 3 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 4 | She had written to them at once after Mr Renfrew 's visit , encompassing them in the great outpouring of gratitude that had flooded her , and received from her father in reply a letter that had shocked her and alarmed her . |
| 5 | But the desire and the longing in his eyes had given her strength , and he had moved to her at once , so that she had known , once and for all , that there could never be anything strained or awkward between them . |
| 6 | After his death his wife Mary wrote that the idea of symbolising logic had occurred to him at the age of 17 ( Leibniz had had similar but less developed ideas as early as 1666 ) , but several subsequent writers ( see [ 96 , p. 235 ] ) have indicated that Boole 's work on the calculus of operations in the early 1840s must have at least influenced his approach if not actually initiated it . |
| 7 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 8 | That much Miguel had volunteered to her at an early stage . |
| 9 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 10 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 11 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
| 12 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 13 | Making no mention of sex , she asked the children to tell her about anything that had happened to them at school which they thought was unfair . |
| 14 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 15 | No one could believe this had happened to us at Lyneham especially after such a long period of accident-free flying |
| 16 | Lady Angela Hardwicke , an elderly and extremely eccentric female with ginger hair , had taken to her at once . |
| 17 | Edward had remarked to him at one stage . |
| 18 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |