Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It was hard at first getting into the routine of doing a set programme , especially the 6am run , which started off at 30 minutes and is now at 50 . |
2 | The branch had previously disclosed that a BA fitter had used the wrong bolts to secure the windscreen panel , which fell off at 17,000 feet , 20 minutes after take-off . |
3 | ‘ Oh , I do hope that I 've done well , ’ Anne told Diana when she arrived back at Green Gables . |
4 | But when she arrived back at Green Gables , Anne knew at once that something was wrong . |
5 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
6 | The pilot agreed and together they took off at 1047 hrs . |
7 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |
8 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
9 | Flashman , who made his fortune touting tickets , insisted yesterday that he was acting only in self defence when he struck out at three photographers , including TODAY 'S Chris Turvey . |
10 | But of course there had been no communication between her aunt and Silas for three years , therefore she was unlikely to be aware of what went on at this back-blocks property . |