Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tessa came in at half past eight and looked overjoyed . |
| 2 | Terence turned up at ten to ten with two friends nobody knew , although the threesome set Karen off , reminding her , she giggled , of the tormentors of Fantastic Mister Fox , one fat , one short , one lean . |
| 3 | The spokesman for the First World War Veterans ' Association , Trafford joined up at 15 on the first day of the war , giving his age as 18 . |
| 4 | These time-fused torpedoes fired , Micky Wynn set off at 0230 for the sea down river , while Commander Ryder moved into midstream to check the position , coming between the wrecks — five MLs were now blazing hulks — to within 250 yards ( 230m ) of the Mole 's batteries as Able Seaman Savage and his mate , AB F.A . |
| 5 | I 've got Len coming round at half past twelve |
| 6 | as if I had n't got enough on my plate with Tim throwing a mid-life crisis and Phil doing the disturbed adolescent bit-now if you please Suzanne comes in at three-thirty in the morning , and me lying there sick with worry , she having never thought to phone , and London with rapists on every street corner or so one 's told . |
| 7 | Selwyn decided his dinner was more important , reminded Yanto to pick up at half past two , and wandered off . |
| 8 | It begins with Septimus Honeydew waking up at three in the morning and trotting off to Mum and Dad 's room . |
| 9 | Masklin looked up at dozens of staring faces . |
| 10 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 11 | Tony got up at six in the morning . |
| 12 | Mrs Stych came in at half past one , her wings bedraggled from the weight of her coat . |