Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 2 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 3 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 4 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 5 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 6 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 7 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |
| 8 | He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together . |
| 9 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 10 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 11 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 12 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 13 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 14 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 15 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 16 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
| 17 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 18 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 19 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 20 | " You and I can share , " Andrew would say to Nicandra , and to her the idea , particularly if it was a difficult horse , made her feel at one with him . |
| 21 | Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all . |
| 22 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 23 | Artai was incapable of sitting still for long , and only his abnormal concern with his appearance made him submit at all to the restrictive nature of the ministrations of the Y'frike slaves . |
| 24 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 25 | Ben spent so much time playing computer games , barely pausing to eat , that lately I 'd sometimes wondered if he knew I existed at all . |
| 26 | PAUSE I thought I knew at last who you were , why you liked me at school , why you took the trouble to read those poems I 'd written . |
| 27 | Now , however , her husband had a motor-car — the first Cork Jew to possess one — and as they drove to the synagogue , their distinguished visitor , Karlinsky , beside her in the back seat , she felt she had at last come into her kingdom . |
| 28 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 29 | He was unhappy but he felt he had at last sorted his life out . |
| 30 | So how did I arrive at this mix ? |