Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 2 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 3 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 4 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 5 | She sort of collapsed me at the knees and I was down there . |
| 6 | Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies . |
| 7 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 8 | She was curious as to how he felt when he saw her at the docks the other day . |
| 9 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 10 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 11 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 12 | One of them stepped from the Sierra with the Kalashnikov and aimed it at the police car . |
| 13 | Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory . |
| 14 | He left her at the gates of the modern-looking block , then drove to St Michael 's , where Nicky Stone was a pupil . |
| 15 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |
| 16 | Odd-Knut has given him a hunting knife , and pointed him at the trees . |
| 17 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 18 | But as she bent to cuddle them a small boy , brushing down a pony , picked up a lump of mud and hurled it at the dogs to drive them off . |
| 19 | As he explained it at the briefings and again at his trial , three years later , ‘ The only people in the conflict in Nicaragua that are today buried beneath a cross are those that fight for the resistance . |