Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 2 | Pick me up at half past four . |
| 3 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 4 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 5 | ‘ He wakes me up at two in the morning sometimes , for no reason at all , ’ Peter said . |
| 6 | They let me off at four in the morning and I had to be in court by nine . |
| 7 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 8 | So she might be better he might be better going with Gill , I 'll tell him tonight erm she 's going over there at two and coming back at three thirty and she wanted Lee to go , like , at three thirty and she 'd bring him back at half past eight at night . |
| 9 | Well yeah pick you up at twenty past nine |
| 10 | ‘ I expected you in at 5 for your tea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 13 | Sometimes I get very cross with the patients , sometimes they , when you 're on call , they ring you up at three in the morning and say they 're constipated ! |
| 14 | Dulcie Howes first met him backstage at one of the performances , given in aid of a war charity . |
| 15 | Fetch them in at half past three . |
| 16 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
| 17 | course now they 're putting them on at half past four you , your body clock 's well out . |
| 18 | That , we 'll pick you up at half past eight , not nine o'clock , that 's a bit too late . |
| 19 | Yes , well Bev was asking , I mean I was doing housework , oh , I was doing bits and pieces you know , and er getting me coat and all that and er she was asking questions and all that and Liz said I 'll pick you up at twenty past eleven , so Bev said alright then , so she come off the phone said she 'd go and have a look and apparently erm , it must of been yesterday if , if Liz is telling the truth she said to whoever are you going to do anything about this ? |
| 20 | Her husband had been taken into hospital and she was waiting for her son to come and pick her up at half past twelve , this was at half past ten in morning ! |
| 21 | The bookmakers clearly believe Salsabil has the speed to win the 1,000 Guineas , William Hill putting her in at 16-1 for the Newmarket Classic . |
| 22 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 23 | You would wake him up at six in the morning and say : ‘ Right Sir we are going here ’ and off we would go . ’ |
| 24 | We spend a decade conditioning ourselves to act in a certain way , with a certain decisiveness , caution , thoroughness , and the result is that we ca n't shake it off at half past six and revert to some more natural state . |
| 25 | The amazing ‘ Street of Much Music ’ , with it 's abundance of colourful bars and restaurants is only 10–15 metres away , as is the beach where you can take advantage of your free beach mat and cultivate those tans ready to show them off at some of Kos town 's brilliant night-clubs , also 15 minutes away . |