Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 2 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 3 | Several emotions battered her at once then , so how she managed to find a voice that was as cool as his she would never know . |
| 4 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
| 5 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |