Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 2 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 3 | You must deploy Mr Bargepole equipped with a pair of electrodes and a can of Aqua Regia in the MD 's office of United Newspapers and not let him at it until he has secured your reprieve . |
| 4 | She shot her arm out and tried to grab it from him , but his fingers closed firmly around her wrist and easily held her at bay . |
| 5 | She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house . |
| 6 | In the ceremony I smeared the metal , rubber and plastic of the new device with earwax , snot , blood , urine , belly-button fluff and toenail cheese , christened it by firing the empty sling at a wingless wasp crawling on the face of the Factory , and also fired it at my bared foot , raising a bruise . |
| 7 | Well the Fox prediction tonight is that Oxford United will draw and probably beat them at the Manor . |
| 8 | Just days before the sale , Allied bumped up their prices by a quarter and then offered everything at ‘ 25 per cent off ’ . |
| 9 | It flicked behind each dimpled knee ; and then scourged her at intervals from her pretty ankles to her shoulder blades . |
| 10 | She once again passed Drew in the street at about 5.10 and then saw him at the theatre at 6.30 , when he came into her dressing room to ask if his make-up was correct . |
| 11 | I did it there originally and then did it at festivals all over the country . |
| 12 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 13 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 14 | Mr McNally : ‘ Are you aware that when he authorised the extension that he told Mr Anderson , and indeed told me at 10.30am yesterday , that there was not sufficient evidence at that stage to charge Mr Anderson following the four interviews on May 24 ? ’ |
| 15 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |