Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve , asked to sit at another table , astonished their host , Lord McAlpine , with the reply : ‘ Mah woman and I sit together . ’ |
| 2 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 3 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 4 | I tried to explain at that press conference and the only one who understood was Bridges , the only one . |
| 5 | The guests were never less than courteous to one another , but for all that , a rather tense atmosphere , characterized largely by distrust , seemed to prevail at this stage . |
| 6 | No , ’ the brief self-mocking laugh seemed to tear at this throat , ‘ I want far more than that . |
| 7 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |
| 8 | They continued to watch in stunned silence as Guy ran up the stairs and disappeared through the doorway , then turned to look at each other . |
| 9 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |
| 10 | If , therefore , 17 September 680 fell in Aethelred 's sixth year , Aethelred began to reign at some point after 17 September 674 and before the anniversary of that date in 675 . |
| 11 | Marguerite began to laugh at this challenge to Alain , and he fixed Jenna with derisive eyes . |
| 12 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 13 | They all started to look at each other rather furtively . |
| 14 | The door of his room was open , his desk was unlocked , and I decided to look at this memento . |
| 15 | His two strange secretaries slid into the room and , without a flicker of a glance at us , went to sit at another table . |
| 16 | ‘ St Louis Music was one of the companies I went to see at that time , and it felt like Ampeg , especially , was home for me . |
| 17 | He then went to look at some property left to the council by a benefactor , an old grain warehouse . |
| 18 | So we 're extending the way that information systems can be used by users who traditionally have not been en empowered or enabled to get at that information . |
| 19 | Bell and his colleagues now believe these were caused by head-on fights with opponents , who appeared to lunge at each other in much the same way that present-day crocodiles do , but with more apparent gusto , using strong jaws to tear at each other 's snouts . |
| 20 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 21 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 22 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |
| 23 | Melody was the last person he wanted to see at this moment , but he reined in when she called him . |
| 24 | The target word that the user intended to write at each position is also known and stored in a file . |
| 25 | D' you wanted to look at that wood in the shed . |
| 26 | ‘ All I wanted to do at that point was change direction . |
| 27 | The one thing he always refused to consider at any time of financial uncertainty was selling any of his personal shareholding in Virgin . |