Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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1 | He was without a car for two days and claimed it had cost him at least £300 in business . |
2 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
3 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
4 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
5 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |