Example sentences of "[vb past] at this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her eyes misted at this heroic image , and she poured herself a brandy . |
| 2 | ‘ Then there was the beardo-weirdo , ’ Melissa winced at this pejorative reference to Barney , ‘ and the Wednesday creep . |
| 3 | And in that moment , as he winced at this new casualty , he lost the advantage that the suddenness of his irruption into the gun chamber had given him . |
| 4 | The assembled crowd rejoiced at this unexpected joy , and Luch stood quietly unnoticed by the steps as they all turned away to where Abbot Kenneth stood in a perfect haze of delight . |
| 5 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 6 | I do n't know what happened at this particular gig , but I know it was his home town — it was the most important gig to David because it was in front of a home crowd . |
| 7 | The attack happened at this pyschiatric unit at Torquay in Devon . |
| 8 | Paige frowned at this new tack . |
| 9 | Being extremely fond of naming things , especially after themselves , the sixty-man senate arrived at this particular figure without much in the way of heated debate . |
| 10 | He had we started out somewhere I had no idea where we were going , until we arrived at this big building with a high railing surrounding the yard and a crowd of children shouting and playing in the yard . |
| 11 | Her interest in cosmetics , like that of her friend Alix Bowen , was minimal , but , like Alix Bowen , she decided that it was after all a festive occasion , and she began at this late moment to apply a little mascara . |
| 12 | Understandably , she fretted at this circumscribed lifestyle , but another episode of somewhat more serious bleeding two weeks ago had convinced everyone that the programme of rest and professional care was not an overcautious one . |
| 13 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |
| 14 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 15 | They had looked at each other , disconcerted at this apparent lack of liaison , but McLeish had been reassuring : very natural that they had n't compared notes , extremely useful that he now knew how long the car had been there . |
| 16 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 17 | Aislabie , who lived for most of his adult life at Lee Place , Eltham , Kent , and at East Park Place , Regent 's Park , died at this latter residence 2 June 1842 . |
| 18 | His tender , almost lazy exploration of her body swelled her love till she felt that if she died at this very moment she would have lived her life to the full . |
| 19 | She felt every one of her thirty some years sitting on her face , and stared at this disoriented stranger , her self . |
| 20 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 21 | Samantha laughed at this pretentious way of describing their last meal . |
| 22 | Joe 's reply was curt and Mr Beecham looked at this young man who , when he had last seen him just a few months ago , had appeared to him to be a schoolboy , immature for his age : but sitting before him now was a young man with no sign of immaturity on his countenance , for he seemed to have aged overnight , as it were . |
| 23 | He looked at this wonderful thing and said : ‘ I wonder if our Germans will ever be able to make anything like this ? ’ |
| 24 | but make me laugh even now , she said the first , the first memories I 've got of new little boy that starting in he looked at this little boy , she said , so , so excited by said with this pure white hair and the |
| 25 | As I looked at this mounting pile of equipment I thought that there was no way this was going to fit into the spare bedroom . |
| 26 | exactly , it 'll be cos we looked at this last week as you said at the end what happens dripping acid onto |
| 27 | Just on a point of er clarification , the villages or settlements I should say , that I 've indicated on the er plan which is included within my statement , er is actually derived from the Selby rural areas local plan , which defines settlements and I believe the County Council have used a similar erm listing of erm settlements within that those two sectors for their own exercise when they looked at this particular subject er criteria . |
| 28 | Rose scoffed at this last bit but let it pass . |
| 29 | Someone had applied for planning permission to knock down an old cow-byre in his garden and build a bungalow ; the environmentalists raged at this further desecration , the laissez-faire element saw no reason why people should n't do what they wished with their own . |
| 30 | The woman looked dumbfounded at this strange man in her presence and walked away . |