Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 2 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 3 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 4 | I mean , I have n't had to clean it out at all . |
| 5 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 6 | How much is it , two thousand pounds , well she 's offered to pay it back at two pounds a week and er it 's gon na take a long time , is n't it , Sir , for her to pay it back ? |
| 7 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 8 | you 're turning sourpuss as well , ho , ho , ho , no I suppose not , she 's coming to pick it up at four thirty , that 's when I get my money which is very nice . |
| 9 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 10 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 11 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 12 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 13 | It is strange to be confronted by a man who seems to want us around at any price . |
| 14 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I did n't mean arrest him just at this minute . |
| 16 | Louise had n't wanted to send him away at all . |
| 17 | ‘ You try pinning him down at such short notice . |
| 18 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 19 | On hotel bills , they do n't , but usually they put it , including local tax , or something like , they always use to show it separately at one time , it 's a percentage , but now , very often your bill just shows it as a , including local tax . |
| 20 | He was meant to phone me up at four ! |
| 21 | Some things from Neil Young , possibly : the idea of asking yourself whether the song is good enough on acoustic guitar and voice to cut it before you start blowing it out at 125 decibels . |
| 22 | ‘ Certainly smuggling is monstrous and iniquitous , ’ replied the Mayor smoothly , ‘ and we are indeed fortunate to have stamped it out at last . |
| 23 | When she did get it in at last , she had to be careful not to trap its tail in the lid when she slid it closed . |
| 24 | Try some of the exercises which follow ; they may seem to make you slower at first , but not only will your speed increase as you get used to them , you may begin to look at problems in a different way . |
| 25 | She had no time to dwell on the matter , however , because , ever a man with no time for prevarication , he replied , ‘ Not trying to trip you up at all , ’ then grated bluntly , ‘ More trying to discover just how many ‘ close ’ men friends you do have . ’ |
| 26 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's all in the past , there I 've said it now at last . ’ |
| 28 | She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last . |
| 29 | She had taken it well at first herself , somehow understanding that Fernando and Maria Luisa had drawn comfort from each other . |
| 30 | ‘ I had put it down at this spot and was about to discover , ’ he said . |