Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he agreed before lapsing into silence , but not before she 'd seen his face reflect the pleasure he 'd experienced at her instant recognition of what was clearly one of his favourite recordings . |
| 2 | I 'd sworn at my thick sweater when I packed my bag in the Laura Ashley room , but I 'd be needing it soon . |
| 3 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |
| 4 | Ace had looked at her scarlet face and his eyes were amused . |
| 5 | The publican had looked at her several times as she offered little posies of limp flowers to customers for a penny a time . |
| 6 | Before her eyes arose a memory of how he had looked at her last night . |
| 7 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
| 8 | There was a bit less hair on his scalp but he looked as fit as he had done at their previous brief meetings . |
| 9 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
| 10 | Just before that , however , Queen Victoria had died at her favourite home in the Isle of White , Osborne House , on 22nd , January 1901 . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Queen Charlotte had asked to be the dedicatee of some of Mozart 's works which Leopold duly had engraved at his own expense ( K.10–15 , sonatas for keyboard and violin or flute and 'cello , published as op.III ) . |
| 12 | Although he might have decided to forget the way they had clashed at their last meeting , she had no doubt that Luke 's misgivings were still there . |
| 13 | She began working with ‘ handicapped ’ children and concluded that the methods which she had found most successful in dealing with feeble-minded children would be quite applicable to those who were normal and that ordinary schools needed the sort of transforma-tion she had accomplished at her own ‘ special ’ school . |
| 14 | It was built in the beautiful plum-coloured brick he had used at his main residence of Rycote . |
| 15 | But then Arthurs , who had called at his former home to visit his three children , lashed out at Mr Berry with a cricket bat and kicked him in the face , breaking his jaw in several places . |
| 16 | The whole company had then made their way along the considerable length of the dripping tunnel by torch light , until they had exited at its other end into the moonlit woods outside the perimeter fence . |
| 17 | Mr Williamson did n't mention it in his description of the way he 'd arrived , the County Council had arrived at their five hundred and odd hectares and er so far as West Yorkshire 's aware , it 's been ignored or so f as far as we 're aware so far , it 's been ignored . |
| 18 | They had arrived at their given destination , had ridden out the Chief Wren 's wrath , and tea — and toast , too , if their noses were to be believed — were within blessed reach . |
| 19 | By the time Bodie reached the dusk-lit Embassy in Kensington , the limousine had arrived at its front steps . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 21 | ‘ Be quiet ! ’ he ordered , and before she knew what he was about he had snatched at her white cap and pulled it off . |