Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could n't take the tight lips and the heavy sighs whenever they looked at the twins . ’ |
| 2 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 3 | I honestly ca n't remember how I felt at the time — I think I was just shocked . |
| 4 | He saw how she bridled at the question , but saw also how the truth forbade her to say yes . |
| 5 | A reader is bound to ask how you arrived at the idea of writing on such a subject . |
| 6 | how they roared at the chairman 's address , |
| 7 | The publishing world would be badly hit if politicians did not bring forth their diaries from time to time , showing just how they reacted at the time to particular world events . |
| 8 | If Britain could be described in any useful way as a society at ease with itself twenty years ago , then that was certainly not how it felt at the time . |
| 9 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 10 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 11 | In his autobiography , ‘ Inward Hunger ’ , ( 1969 ) Williams gives us an insight to how he felt at the end of this speech , ‘ the audience had listened with rapt attention ’ … then … |
| 12 | But the green smell used to be there and it was strong enough to make me think of English summers when I looked at the sky . |
| 13 | I had none of [ the former ] assets when I started at the Bar ; but my 25 years in practice were the happiest in my life . |
| 14 | Yesterday , when I called at the house before the funeral I was afraid of what I would find . |
| 15 | And that 's when I waved at the Guards major Nogin and set in motion the arrest of Ralph Pike . |
| 16 | Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’ |
| 17 | Can can we go back again to when you lived at the other place . |
| 18 | Anna was in the kitchen preparing vegetables , and from where she stood at the sink she could look across the water to Falmouth , a few hundred yards away : the Greenbank Hotel , the Royal Yacht Club , the new flats on the Packet Quays , then the backs of High Street and the pier . |
| 19 | He grabbed her , reaching over to where she sat at the end of the sofa , turning her roughly by the arm so that she had to face him , had to look deep into his angry , ice-blue eyes . |
| 20 | There was so much blood , and the girl left her own prints where she grabbed at the knife — probably trying to drag it out . |
| 21 | Next day I lunched with Hugh [ Lygon ] and drank with him all afternoon and sallied out with him fighting drunk at tea-time when we drank at the New Reform until dinner . |
| 22 | It was eight o'clock when we arrived at the station and got on the train , and by half-past nine we were in Strelsau . |
| 23 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 24 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 25 | It is possible that none of the top three will take the honours , for Edinburgh Civil Service are once again coming with a tremendous run , reminiscent of last season , when they fell at the final hurdle . |
| 26 | It was mid-afternoon when they arrived at the compound 's rear gate . |
| 27 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 28 | Great therefore was my respect for our swift and silent counter of books and boxes when he announced at the end of his calculations , made just before the sale : ‘ You have about 4,000 more books this year . ’ |
| 29 | It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay . |
| 30 | Andrew , now 29 , was 15 that summer when he knocked at the door and introduced himself . |