Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally I jumped at the chance . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It was worth doing , or so I thought at the time . |
| 3 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 4 | She was a real beauty , or so I thought at the time . |
| 5 | Mark Higgins is just 10 and said : ‘ I saw boxing on the TV and loved it so I started at the gym twice a week . |
| 6 | So I stayed at the hostel for four weeks . |
| 7 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
| 8 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 9 | So you jumped at the chance , but it is , I think th th poverty wage in Europe is it not , not about a hundred and forty , a hundred and forty five pounds ? |
| 10 | I stayed like that for the minute or so we waited at the Lochgair station platform , and did n't stir again — yawning convincingly for any other passengers who might be watching — until we were crossing the viaduct at Succothmore . |
| 11 | We were disappointed when Sheffield Wednesday turned down our bid for David Hirst so we looked at the situation again and decided that Cantona was the best . |
| 12 | Lastly we looked at the way in which the form of words is affected by the sender 's knowledge and idea of the receiver 's knowledge . |
| 13 | Together we shouted at the man , and told him we would tell this story all over London so that his name would be hated . |
| 14 | Together they gazed at the family portraits and Miss Hatherby pointed out the niceties of her forefathers ' dress — ‘ Folk would literally kill for shoe buckles of that quality . |
| 15 | Suddenly it rushed at the tree , leapt onto a low branch , and ran up the trunk . |
| 16 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |
| 17 | No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there . |
| 18 | It was a crazy idea , but it was all he had at the moment . |
| 19 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 20 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
| 21 | Soon I arrived at the lime-kiln , which was still burning , although the workmen had all gone home . |
| 22 | Above we looked at the affairs of only a single day ; and supposed the stocks offered for sale to be already in existence . |
| 23 | Tonight we camped at the site where the first Smith and Miranda expedition ended . |
| 24 | As Zen turned away he glanced at the calendar hanging beside the phone , and suddenly realized what day it was . |
| 25 | He had been sacked by the sponsors when finally he arrived at the course . |
| 26 | The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend . |
| 27 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 28 | On his way home he called at the hotel to thank Mrs Wood for her kindness . |
| 29 | Later she knocked at the star 's dressing room door , and her stomach turned over when she saw who was with her . |
| 30 | An hour later they arrived at the airport . |