Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 2 | Prof Chris Turner , professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences , Stirling University , made his at this week 's Children 's Panels conference at Peebles : |
| 3 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 4 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 5 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 6 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
| 7 | Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours . |
| 8 | Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive . |
| 9 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 10 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 11 | If all else failed they at any rate ought to produce children . |
| 12 | Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did . |
| 13 | He was only halfway there when she passed him at full speed , shouting ‘ Slow coach ! ’ as she flew ahead . |
| 14 | You can see furniture , you can see old houses , Arthur Neagus going round all these old houses , you can see a lot of things now , that the normal public never would see in the , the ordinary man in the street probably never saw them at one time , but I think this must of made a difference to people . |
| 15 | Jim Pickering was one of the four : ‘ I was Red 2 in company with Red I and Green Section when I saw a Ju88 engaged by A.A. about 1,000 feet above us … he saw me at this height and turned in a circle onto my tail . |
| 16 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 17 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 18 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 19 | Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown . |
| 20 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 21 | Did you at any stage draw your revolver ? |
| 22 | Did you at any stage take the revolver out of the holster ? |
| 23 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 24 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 25 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 26 | Fred cheated his clients , of course ; but he never did it at this stage of a transaction . |
| 27 | ‘ Did he at any time make advances to you ? ’ |
| 28 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 29 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 30 | He led her inside and left her at one side of the room , walking softly away and stopping to face her at the other side . |