Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 2 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 3 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
| 4 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 5 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 6 | No I was talking to Julie yesterday , she phoned me up at the |
| 7 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 8 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |
| 9 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 10 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 11 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 12 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
| 13 | James was full of praise for the medical teams who helped him both at the scene and at Coleraine hospital . |
| 14 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 15 | ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police . |
| 16 | Dropped me off at the cross roads and went straight down there to drop off at Newark Road . |
| 17 | ‘ Thank you for the meal , ’ she said as Fen dropped her off at the end of the towpath . |
| 18 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 19 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 20 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 21 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
| 22 | And opened them sharply at an insistent , warning buzz from her duty station . |
| 23 | Handed them out at the Police Station ! |
| 24 | and they fetched me down at the hospital |
| 25 | He handed it over at a rendezvous — but Elizabeth was kept in her captor 's car boot for another two hours before being dumped . |
| 26 | Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall . |
| 27 | He picked up the book he was reading , and threw it violently at the rat . |
| 28 | Richard Cohen , who commissioned the book , said : ‘ I was very glad the judge threw it out at the very first stage . |
| 29 | He threw it hard at the Dodger , but missed and hit Charley Bates , who started to shout with fear . |
| 30 | That 's how it seems in memory ; and we each apprehended it subcutaneously at the time , il me semble . |