Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 2 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 3 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 4 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 5 | In the ceremony I smeared the metal , rubber and plastic of the new device with earwax , snot , blood , urine , belly-button fluff and toenail cheese , christened it by firing the empty sling at a wingless wasp crawling on the face of the Factory , and also fired it at my bared foot , raising a bruise . |
| 6 | As Birmingham abolitionists expressed it at their celebratory public breakfast in the Town Hall on 2 August 1838 , with slaves ‘ relying on their own peaceful and persevering efforts for the removal of every vestige of oppression ’ and with ‘ the continued vigilant aid of the British people , under the blessing of Divine Providence ’ they foresaw ‘ the progressive development of the glorious results of free institutions and the reconstruction on purer and better principles of the now disorganised elements of colonial society ’ . |
| 7 | I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ? |
| 8 | I recently saw them at my local garden centre . |
| 9 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |