Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 32 | both , really I think they both hit you at the same time |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | When she came back , Phyllis and Peter met her at the back door . |
| 40 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 41 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 42 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 43 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 44 | Moran who had been watching as anxiously as the two girls met him at the wooden gate . |
| 45 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 46 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 47 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 48 | Saw them at the same time , change of address . |
| 49 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 50 | According to the survey results , for the 12 months ending in January this year , 51 per cent of Britain 's smaller exporters increased their overseas sales over those for the previous year , a further 23 per cent kept them at the same level and 26 per cent reported a drop . |
| 51 | ’ Actually I saw you at the Central Conference last month . ’ |
| 52 | Lamb 's solicitor Alan Herd , who represented him at the 50-minute hearing , said : ‘ Allan is very unhappy with the decision and is urgently considering an appeal to the Cricket Council . |
| 53 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |
| 54 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 55 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 56 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 57 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 58 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 59 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 60 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |