Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this there was a loud outburst of laughter , and everyone looked at a girl sitting at the back , who , scarlet in the face , ran out of the room , sobbing . |
| 2 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
| 3 | Then a long glass appeared in her hand , and a straw , and she sipped at an amber drink , and ice cubes clinked . |
| 4 | The conversation about oxtail had made her realise how hungry she was and she stopped at a delicatessen shop on the way home and bought a pizza . |
| 5 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 6 | Kāli chose the steeper , shorter route to the forest and we climbed at a leisurely pace , stopping occasionally to catch our breath , lurching drunkenly and bumping into each other when the gradient increased and we were too lazy to keep up our momentum . |
| 7 | The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace . |
| 8 | and they sold at a very low price and |
| 9 | Loretta refused with a laugh , and they continued at a more sedate pace . |
| 10 | They had cups of sweet milky tea and they sat at a table . |
| 11 | Inside the bar they descended again into the dining alcove , and they sat at a table by a small-paned window which was back on a level with the path outside . |
| 12 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 13 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 14 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |