Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 2 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |
| 3 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 4 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 5 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 6 | If you wanted to kill someone , and you 'd struck at one kidney , you 'd certainly strike at the other . |
| 7 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 8 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 9 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 10 | He was blond with deep-set brown eyes which looked troubled at this moment , and he was well dressed . |
| 11 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 12 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 13 | The car had stopped at some traffic lights . |
| 14 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 15 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 16 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 17 | It had been gentle , a sweet , surprised discovering , and they had looked at each other shyly afterwards , unable to speak . |
| 18 | The girls had looked at each other curiously and Antonia had trailed obediently after the older woman . |
| 19 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 20 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 21 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 22 | Indeed , recently a journalist from The Lady had hinted at some connection between the heroine and Lily . |
| 23 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
| 24 | Evans flushed and looked far more embarrassed than he had done at any stage so far . |
| 25 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |
| 26 | Critics of the Vienna conference , notably the Tehran-based Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , had said at that time that the conference should have been held in the region to make it more accessible for the bulk of the exiled opposition . |
| 27 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 28 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 29 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 30 | Fujimori had promised at that time that he would wipe out Sendero by the end of his mandate in 1995 . |