Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [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 I want you there at eight o'clock , please .
4 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
5 No , you said would I bring it up at this meeting .
6 I like it not at all , lass .
7 I talked him down at one point
8 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 .
9 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
10 Trying to cover sixty miles , okay , Trying to cover sixty miles so I do it again at sixty miles an hour .
11 But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night .
12 He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’
13 He added a postscript in his own hand : ‘ I pray you that ye fail me not at this time in my great need , as ye will that I show you my good lordship in that matter that ye labour to me for . ’
14 Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine .
15 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 .
16 And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed !
17 you get it back at that end , yeah .
18 ‘ It 's very kind of you to put me up at such short notice , but I really would n't dream of imposing .
19 Did you hear them upstairs at one stage ?
20 No spark , no enjoyable crossing of swords with someone , no delight in teasing — and yet , really , she knew him not at all .
21 " I just do n't know why you turn me on at all , " Slater said , then peered closely at the other young man 's face and said pointedly , " Are you listening to me , Park ? "
22 the total is different opposite on the scale , instead of all this stuff inside of you , you just let it build up and you let it build up until whoosh and you throw it outside at other people , and that itself that that as well causes physical problems .
23 How many times have you switched on BBC2 on the weekend of a Major to hear Steve Ryder say , ‘ You join us here at Crooked Stick where American Brad Faxon leads the field ’ or ‘ And the surprise leader is the American ex-college champion Ted Schulz ’ ?
24 Do you let them try them on at all ?
25 Get it done cos they send you off at ten .
26 They let me off at four in the morning and I had to be in court by nine .
27 And tell her to pick me up at ten thirty .
28 They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened .
29 in the morning , they wake me up at six o'clock in the morning !
30 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 !
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