Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 2 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 3 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 4 | I am hallucinating , I said to myself at first : the strain has affected my mind . |
| 5 | The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke . |
| 6 | If she believed in anything at all then it was that . |
| 7 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 8 | She looked at him at last , with such obvious disgust that de Raimes ’ face darkened . |
| 9 | But whatever she was up to — and it was something — she spent days ticking and marking the party guest list , a thick , creamy piece of paper she kept with her at all times . |
| 10 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 11 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 12 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 13 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
| 14 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 15 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 16 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 17 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
| 18 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 19 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 20 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 21 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 22 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
| 23 | In the past , he had only ever spoken well of his mother , when he spoke of her at all . |
| 24 | He shot after him at high speed . |
| 25 | To generalize and say that it stood for anything at all was self-delusion and deceit . |