Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean , alright , we know you 're handling large lumps of money , but when you think of it , if you , if you , borrowed it at a different rate , you know , same rate as you could do finance , 'cos which I think the government could do it and make a profit at it . |
| 32 | Instead of bowling the ball , which bore a small silver shield , Mr Cottle threw it at a low-flying swan . |
| 33 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 34 | Quiss stumbled out of his seat , almost falling , scooped a flat piece of slate from the floor and threw it at the red crow , which screamed and jumped out of the way , spreading its wings and dropping away , flying into the cold clear space below the balcony , its final call echoing briefly , like laughter . |
| 35 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 36 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
| 37 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 38 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 39 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 40 | Gaily followed them at a discreet distance and watched as they lowered Miss Faith Lavender into her last resting place . |
| 41 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 42 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 43 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 44 | Billy rowed across and followed her at a discreet distance . |
| 45 | As they walked he offered her his arm , unlike most punters , who followed her at a discreet distance . |
| 46 | Behind her Rose followed her at a wheezing trot , keeping up with her , until she suddenly mastered the antiquated machine , and sped away , feeling like a Swiss mountaineer with his St Bernard dog , setting off on his errand of mercy . |
| 47 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 48 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 49 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
| 50 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 51 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 52 | both , really I think they both hit you at the same time |
| 53 | Say , ‘ You lost him at an early age , did n't you ? ’ and I 'll say , ‘ Lost him ? |
| 54 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
| 55 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 56 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 57 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |
| 58 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 59 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 60 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |