Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he loosed his grip suddenly , and stood back with an oath , his hand going up to his lip where blood appeared at the site of her teeth-marks . |
| 2 | Where Lewis looked at the world around him , even when he was writing autobiography , Leavis looked ever more attentively at himself . |
| 3 | Although Laing started at the bottom of the ladder , he admits that the fact he and his brother inherited control of the business early on in their careers helped them to climb the hierarchy rather swiftly . |
| 4 | And , although Folly stared at the slip of pasteboard with the kind of intensity that fortune-tellers reserved for Tarot cards , she did n't know exactly what he had in mind … |
| 5 | All through trains ceased on the GC in the early hours of 4th September 1966 , when signal boxes were locked out of use until demolition began at the turn of the year . |
| 6 | If inflation continued at the rate of 5% per annum , then by 1 January , 1992 each £100 original nominal value of the bond would be worth £110.25 and the interest due thereon in that year would be £2.205 . |
| 7 | And when the train started she wished she could close her cars too , because Nick stood at the window and sang . |
| 8 | Toby lounged more comfortably in his chair , while Jackson chafed at the lack of hard evidence . |
| 9 | They could spend their honeymoon staying in the old farmhouse which had once belonged to the d'Urbervilles , while Angel studied at the mill nearby . |
| 10 | There was a long silence while Silas stared at the table . |
| 11 | She did not know how to assert herself here ; she felt out of her depth , floating in the warm limbo of the pool while swifts swooped at the water . |
| 12 | Since Gauloises withdrew at the end of last season I really did n't know where I stood . |
| 13 | Later they walked in the garden together , while Basil worked at the portrait . |
| 14 | While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him . |
| 15 | Miss Ellis flinched and glanced in the rear view mirror but continued to talk in her calm , professional voice while Gilly picked at the bits of gum stuck in her straggly hair and on her cheeks and chin . |
| 16 | The world No 1 's five-shot overnight lead was ripped apart by Australia 's Great White Shark , who fumbled a 3ft putt on the last green before Faldo won at the first extra hole . |
| 17 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 18 | There is something reflexive rather than rational , automatic rather than deliberative , circumscribed and autonomous rather than holistic about parsing a sentence such as ‘ She met John before Mary arrived at the airport ’ in the way we do ( with the pronoun she not referring to Mary but to some other female ) . |
| 19 | The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in . |
| 20 | The case against the accountants and bankers began after discrepancies emerged at the end of 1984 between the profit forecast for Francis , drawn up during the acquisition , and the company 's annual report and accounts audited by Coopers & Lybrand . |
| 21 | As Emmerson explained at the Seminar , banks typically only save information where legal or business requirements make the information necessary or useful . |
| 22 | And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately . |
| 23 | Gilly nearly tripped over herself , leaping down and grabbing up ‘ Sarsaparilla to Sorcery ’ from the chair seat , stretching her guts out to tip the book into its place on the shelf as Trotter appeared at the door . |
| 24 | He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth . |
| 25 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 26 | By the time the snow began to thaw he could walk gingerly on his injured ankle and when aid arrived at the farm in the form of Tom 's snow-plough , with Tom guiding the plough and Carrie riding the horse , Seb was standing in the farmyard to greet them . |
| 27 | When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she did n't hold out much hope of prising his purse open . |
| 28 | As Rincewind stared at the crowd , with sensations of prickly horror travelling up his spine , there came a gentle prod in the small of his back . |
| 29 | It made Ali susceptible when Rowbotham exploded at the idea of pin-ups . |
| 30 | When Karen arrived at the restaurant that evening , Drew was already there . |