Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I met him at one of the numerous receptions . |
| 2 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 3 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 4 | She rang me at half past ten , I 'd forgotten all about it till phone went and I says ooh I 've lost your phone number . |
| 5 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 6 | They placed it at 7,000 in early 1977 and were far from happy at the knowledge . |
| 7 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |