Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 2 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 3 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 4 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 5 | When she did get it in at last , she had to be careful not to trap its tail in the lid when she slid it closed . |
| 6 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 7 | She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last . |
| 8 | She had taken it well at first herself , somehow understanding that Fernando and Maria Luisa had drawn comfort from each other . |
| 9 | ‘ I had put it down at this spot and was about to discover , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to cut it out at one stage in the editing but Nicola went mad . |