Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
| 2 | He noticed Willie looking at the black box on the stool . |
| 3 | After only eight lessons Arlene asked Paula to wait at the end of class . |
| 4 | One example was at London Zoo when a polar bear called Brumas died at the age of nine because he ate something which had been thrown into his enclosure . |
| 5 | In 1710 financiers in the City of London had formed the South Sea Company to bid for the right to use the privileges they expected Britain to get at the end of the war . |
| 6 | We first met Pacific waters at the windswept village of Puerto Natales , and suddenly there were mountains all around us : mountains and glaciers , and curious seabirds and dolphins and spume-whipped sea , the water a vivid blue under a cloudless sky . |
| 7 | Flavia saw Andrée glance at the square of oil-cloth off which she ate her meals . |
| 8 | She had expected to find them both still in bed , and was surprised by the noises from the kitchen , but she poked her head round the door and saw Maggie sitting at the kitchen table eating Weetabix in a reassuringly healthy way . |
| 9 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 10 | Their host saw Paula gazing at the carpet . |
| 11 | I never saw Laura working at the business . |
| 12 | They both saw Garty Jenks at the same time . |
| 13 | He saw Mariana scrabble at the grass , desperate for purchase . |
| 14 | She looked up and saw Felipe lying at the top , head and shoulders over the drop , and Mitch joined him as she was still looking dazedly upwards . |
| 15 | We went down to the white-washed infirmary where I made Benjamin stop at the kitchen for rags soaked in vinegar and herbs . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be taking him , then , ’ said Jack nodding at the sack in the truck . |
| 17 | Woolley belched , and stretched Margery sucked at the inside of her lip . |