Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had hated her at sight . |
| 2 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 3 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 4 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 6 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 7 | Paddick told him it was because he had watched him at work for so long . |
| 8 | Brian Lara , playing only his second Test after 24 one-dayers , did not last long after Wessels had reprieved him at slip first ball , gloving Bosch down the leg side for David Richardson to snatch a magnificent one-handed catch . |
| 9 | She had called him at home to check on what time he was coming to pick |
| 10 | A planchette , they had called it at school . |
| 11 | ‘ This is quite delicious , ’ she remarked to her host , and when he looked over at her quite affably , with no sign of the fury that had enveloped him at lunchtime , she felt that she could , and should , bring the matter into the open . |
| 12 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 13 | He paid her a small allowance , as she , as a married woman , was no longer eligible for the grant that had supported her at university . |
| 14 | She had hit him at lunchtime — her feelings now were even more murderous . |
| 15 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 16 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 17 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 18 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |