Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 2 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 3 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 4 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 5 | Billy rowed across and followed her at a discreet distance . |
| 6 | Luckily Billy saw Harriet leave , carrying the second of the cubs , and followed her at a distance . |
| 7 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |
| 8 | Colin picked up his coffee and drank it at a gulp . |
| 9 | He was talented enough and resourceful enough to survive it , although I think it almost devastated and destroyed him at a certain point . |