Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PICTURE THAT MADE ME SICK AT Lord Spencer 's funeral , Diana reached for Lady Spencer 's arm . |
| 2 | Just over three years ago England defeated them 2-0 at Wembley , but Yugoslavia might have drawn or even won that game had they taken their chances . |
| 3 | So we put a , as a rider on , that it had already passed the rider it says there , but we found it unacceptable at P A G. |
| 4 | All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help . |
| 5 | We found it hard at times , but my players showed character and that was what earned them both points . ’ |
| 6 | He was frightened by a prophecy that his downfall would be similarly brought about by one of his own children , so he ate them all at birth — HERA , POSEIDON , Hestia , DEMETER and HADES . |
| 7 | I identified them all at Toronto station when I was allocating their sleeping quarters . |
| 8 | Strong drink , and a frequent excess of it , made him unreliable at times , both in his judgements on the course and in his time-keeping . |
| 9 | This made him popular at home , but enraged Alexander III . |
| 10 | It kept me awake at nights , it made me forget what I was doing during the day . |
| 11 | The greatest single restriction on my practice was not being able to request X-rays when senior medical staff were not in the department , This rendered me ineffective at times when I could be best used , namely evenings and weekends . |
| 12 | Those memories kept him awake at night , often leaving him sweating and fearful after dreaming of long dark tunnels and falling through space . |
| 13 | Bottles of boiling water from the kitchen kept us warm at night and provided sterile drinking water for the next day . |
| 14 | It was marked a vista , which made it payable at sight . |
| 15 | The data sheets described a wide range of shades of co-operative activity in the planning , developing , or running of programmes , which made it inappropriate at times to define the programmes as either internal or external . |
| 16 | They awaited him first at Yenipazar , but when Murad refused to see them there , they returned to Edirne to await him . |
| 17 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 18 | Reference to Freemantle 's letter shows that although Philip and Anne Leapor both attempted to break their daughter of the habit of writing verses , toward the end of the poet 's life some accommodation was reached : ‘ But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , [ her father ] had of late desisted and left her more at Liberty ’ [ vol. 2 , p. xxx ] . |
| 19 | Red-faced Radio Cleveland presenter Tim Ellingford flew into a panic when an airline bungle by left him stranded at Heathrow instead of hosting the Sunday lunchtime show from Middlesbrough . |