Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 2 | He began hanging out at a seedy bar where transvestites , gay guys in leather jackets , and even butch lesbians , would lay him across a table and then crawl all over him . |
| 3 | Our UK customers first began to look shaky and soon afterwards began to shut down at an alarming rate . |
| 4 | It had also introduced postgraduate diplomas and higher doctorates to supplement the undergraduate , masters and doctoral degrees it had decided on at an early stage . |
| 5 | They had lunched together at a small restaurant full of pseudo-oak beams and bright red table-cloths . |
| 6 | They had arrived independently at a similar view on the character of Prince Hal and the way in which that should be developed through the three plays . |
| 7 | The deflation of aggregate demand and the rise in unemployment did appear to reduce the rate of inflation , but once unemployment had settled down at a higher level , the rate of inflation ceased to fall . |
| 8 | Allitt had worked regularly at an old people 's home and been spotted by an auxiliary nurse one night giving an injection to a 73-year-old diabetic , Dorothy Lowe . |
| 9 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
| 10 | The counsellor made it clear that if they wanted to come back at a later stage , they would be welcome . |
| 11 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |