Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 32 | She might even , he suggested , as they went to the stairs , benefit from a quiet winter with her sister to help and think what joy lay ahead with Oreste brought to her at last . |
| 33 | The stream was marked with a blue line and what looked like a child 's drawing of a ladder lay across it at one point . |
| 34 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
| 35 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 36 | She looked at him at last , with such obvious disgust that de Raimes ’ face darkened . |
| 37 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 38 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 39 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
| 40 | In the past , he had only ever spoken well of his mother , when he spoke of her at all . |
| 41 | ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’ |
| 42 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 43 | Stifling the pang of uncivilised jealousy that shot through her at that thought , Folly eased herself into the driver 's seat and slammed the door . |
| 44 | He shot after him at high speed . |
| 45 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 46 | I am hallucinating , I said to myself at first : the strain has affected my mind . |
| 47 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 48 | Elizabeth wrote to me at this time . |
| 49 | To generalize and say that it stood for anything at all was self-delusion and deceit . |
| 50 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 51 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |