Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She got me she had to kiss me on the arse she fucking she had to be there thirty seconds to get the points and I farted at about ten seconds |
2 | I counted at least 15 snippets of tunes in the half-hour slot and none resembled a conventional song , just a patchwork quilt of ideas . |
3 | I took at least two hours before reluctantly passing it over . |
4 | ‘ I drank at least four litres during the canoeing , ’ Bramwell said . |
5 | It proves you spent at least three weekends together as man and wife in the Cotswolds . |
6 | She looked at least fifteen years younger than she was . |
7 | A favourite ballet was Swan Lake which she saw at least four times when school parties travelled to the Coliseum or Sadler 's Wells theatres in London . |
8 | It was all going entirely to plan and quite uneventful until we arrived at about 150 feet above the upwind end of the runway . |
9 | There 's , there 's the Racial Equality council issue , where erm , I mean I think there 's er , I would like to look again at the degree to which compliance and contract compliance can be achieved through the county council 's procedures which we looked at about four years ago , and I would see that at least as important as working and funding outside activities . |
10 | They arrived at ever decreasing intervals , always the same pale bewildered collection of strangers , always with new and astonishing stories of battle and the day-dream world . |
11 | He may end up with as many as sixty youngsters from several different broods which , because they hatched at slightly different times , are of several different sizes . |
12 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
13 | In 1688 Townesend married Anne , daughter of Henry Brian , gentleman , of Witney : they had at least eight children but only a son John and a daughter survived their father , the former carrying on the business . |
14 | They had at least two sons , the elder of whom died in infancy . |
15 | They had at least two daughters and five sons . |
16 | They had at least three children — two sons , who died in infancy , and one daughter , Susanna , who married Thomas Stafford in 1627 . |
17 | It must have been up there for years , it weighed at least 14 carats and sat like a throbbing lime fruit pastille on the back of my unmoving hand . |
18 | Political violence was rampant , and still is : it cost at least 3,000 lives in 1990 . |
19 | Now it seemed at least twelve feet in height , roughly humanoid in shape and wearing what looked like a plastic bucket on its head . |
20 | Roy Strait said he heard at least two men as they administered sleeping pills to the film star — then smothered her to death . |
21 | Incidentally , the golden eagle which I mentioned last week did not reappear in Yorkshire 's Nidderdale where it spent at least five days , but it was finally relocated . |
22 | In each of his nine full seasons in English cricket he took at least 100 wickets , three times exceeding the 200 mark . |
23 | Even in the 1780s travel was difficult and on foot or by horse — it took at least four days to get from Edinburgh to London . |
24 | So it took at least four men . |
25 | The sensitivity of the initiative is underlined by the fact that it took at least five months for Unix Labs and Santa Cruz to agree on a basic specification drawn up by UK firm IXI Ltd and edited by Unix Labs . |
26 | With brute strength ( it took at least ten horses to shift even one medium field gun ) , the Germans eventually moved their guns forward but the delays involved meant that many of the deadly 21Os , so essential a part of the German offensive technique , were hors de combat over long periods of the battle during its most critical phase . |
27 | As in the case of Sugar , the ORB 's of both of these Squadrons are incomplete regarding ED888 , but it is fairly certain that it completed at least 140 operations . |
28 | She looked it over , saw that it had at least two exits , and gave him a cautious yes . |
29 | He had at least six sons . |
30 | He was twice married : before 1620 , to Frances , third daughter of Sir Hugh Brawne , by whom he had at least two sons and two daughters , and secondly , by 1656 , to Elizabeth , who survived him . |