Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 2 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 3 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 4 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 5 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 6 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 7 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 8 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 9 | I 've seen it at closed hand . |
| 10 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 11 | Where properties are untenanted , Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession . |
| 12 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 13 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 14 | Nevertheless , I would advocate studying some subject in depth , not necessarily as an undergraduate , so that you can feel you have really mastered it at some stage in your career . |
| 15 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 16 | Though , thinking back , surely he had n't known her at that stage , had hardly known who she was . |
| 17 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 18 | The systematic putting together of parts to a purposeful design is something we know and understand , for we have experienced it at first hand , even if only with our childhood Meccano or Erector set . |
| 19 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |
| 20 | The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words . |
| 21 | Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
| 22 | He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor . |
| 23 | After he 'd left her at Wild Tor , they would never see each other again . |
| 24 | Sometimes genuine letters are offered without the vital signature , some rabid autograph hunter having removed it at some period . |
| 25 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 26 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |