Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Sutton route was replaced by trolleybuses , the remainder joined them at Brixton in December 1935 , but the contract with Cohens for their scrapping had already been signed on 12 October . |
| 2 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 3 | Has all the nonsense off the field distracted you at all , made your h job harder ? |
| 4 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 5 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 7 | The cold held it at bay despite the glow of the flames on his face . |
| 8 | One day when I changed my aunt 's library book for her the girl handed me At Mrs Lippincote 's , the first novel of a new author , published that year . |
| 9 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 10 | The coach dropped me at the Lofleiđ3ir , a palatial hotel . |
| 11 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 12 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 13 | The German saw him at once , walked over , shook hands , greeted him in his own language . |
| 14 | The suggestions included limiting Congress 's powers only to proposing amendments to the Constitution , and allowing Yeltsin to retain the right granted him at the October-November 1991 extraordinary Congress to appoint ministers without approval from the legislature . |
| 15 | The tailor measured me at the height of the deluge . |
| 16 | When asked at what level unitary authorities should be created , the results were evenly split : around half the sample favoured them at broadly district level while the other half preferred regional level or expressed no preference . |
| 17 | On 18 November 1699 King William III dined at his house in Richmond and , on 23 June 1700 , in recognition of his services , the king knighted him at Hampton Court . |
| 18 | It was like a nightmare to sit and listen to the loose stones bouncing off my windscreen and bodywork as the lorry passed me at about 70mph . |
| 19 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 20 | He arrived on time for his appointment and he was not kept waiting ; the receptionist introduced him at once . |
| 21 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 22 | Therefore the possibility must be that the sender kept it at home , and that there 's more of it there . |
| 23 | The watch-alarm woke him at midnight . |
| 24 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 25 | The accordion kept them at it , energetic , sweet . |
| 26 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 27 | The Doctor acknowledged it at once . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll never forget the reception the crowd gave us at the end . ’ |
| 29 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 30 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |