Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expected you in at 5 for your tea . |
| 2 | I caught him up at last . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I talked him down at one point |
| 5 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 8 | But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night . |
| 9 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 10 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 11 | ‘ There speaks the man who drove us here at such breakneck speed that I began to take pity on his poor Ferrari 's engine . |
| 12 | Nor were matters helped by Violet gaining ten ‘ A's in her O levels , losing a stone and getting her first boyfriend , who rang her constantly at all hours of the night from Beverly Hills . |
| 13 | No spark , no enjoyable crossing of swords with someone , no delight in teasing — and yet , really , she knew him not at all . |
| 14 | Oh , she had the chic that seemed to be the birthright of all French women , but she had nothing else at all , unless it was the rather fine dark eyes , the only thing she had in common with her tall and impressive son . |
| 15 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 16 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 17 | from Budgen 's , when erm ah , you know at Chris , Christmas they had it down at one seventy nine a pound , did n't they ? |
| 18 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 19 | It moved him not at all . |
| 20 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 21 | He rang me up at nine o'clock . |
| 22 | He rang it again at seven o'clock at night to warn the gleaners that their work for that day must end . |
| 23 | He took it seriously at first , affronted that anyone could say anything about anyone so close to him , but before very long , he saw the funny side . |
| 24 | erm But they were disappointed when John Thorn equalised after another five minutes and he put them ahead at half time by two one . |
| 25 | He did it carefully at first , only a handful at a time , saving every shilling made . |
| 26 | He gave himself up at High Down Prison , in London . |
| 27 | Looking at his glistening face , his cheeks and forehead like apple-skins , Cameron wondered what fired him most at this moment — self-satisfaction ? or a true pleasure in poetic language ? |