Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Paul accompanied me at some services . |
| 32 | Did you at any stage draw your revolver ? |
| 33 | Did you at any stage take the revolver out of the holster ? |
| 34 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Later Lisa was to wonder at the power of the sensations that swept in on her and possessed her at that moment . |
| 37 | Fred cheated his clients , of course ; but he never did it at this stage of a transaction . |
| 38 | ‘ Did he at any time make advances to you ? ’ |
| 39 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 40 | 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 ? |
| 41 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 44 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 45 | We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’ |
| 46 | Some bibles say that , that they 've come to this , at the end of the day , they had n't quite , had it at that point anyway , cos they 'd approached it cos they were still alive were n't they ? |
| 47 | She drank it at one gulp . |
| 48 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 49 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 50 | They obtained some preserved embryo amphisbaenians — a difficult thing to do as specimens are scarce — and sectioned them at various stages of development . |
| 51 | During a visit to an airfield he clocked it at 95 mph . |
| 52 | The gradient of a curve is the gradient of tangent , so we can draw a tangent where you wanted it at that place . |