Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mouth touched hers lightly at first , then he deepened the kiss with a passionate hunger that their lovemaking had failed to assuage . |
| 2 | David Swan joined them promptly at six-thirty . |
| 3 | His limbs pulled themselves up at ridiculous angles . |
| 4 | The 30-year-old champion from Croydon pulled himself up at nine with seemingly no more than a split second to spare and it was possible that American referee Rudy Battle , handling his 57th world title fight , gave him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 5 | Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them . |
| 6 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 7 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 8 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 9 | Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is |
| 10 | The huge fire roaring in the hall beyond the small entrance chamber warmed her not at all . |
| 11 | Apparently this one and only brush with city life impressed him not at all . |
| 12 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |
| 13 | ‘ Why , I think it 's a splendid idea ! ’ cried Beegee , when Angela put it forward at Pow-wow . |
| 14 | Alice said nothing else at all . |