Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 2 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 3 | A fire broke out at the Balakovo nuclear reactor in southern Russia on March 4 , but no radiation was released , according to officials . |
| 4 | She opened the door and looked down at the gutter two feet away and then sighed . |
| 5 | This confinement apparently affected his health and , after a short illness , he died suddenly at the museum 28 May 1917 . |
| 6 | Alida almost laughed aloud at the picture this presented to her mind , except that it was scarcely an occasion for laughter . |
| 7 | And such a change from that of Leo Beenhakker , the urbane Dutchman from whom Toshack took over at the Bernabeu last summer . |
| 8 | Vi looked again at the letter half-hidden behind the sepia vase on the kitchen mantel and wondered bitterly whose fault it had been . |
| 9 | Carol gave him his tea then sat down at the table next to Plummer , who carried on eating . |
| 10 | Another hundred yards , and then held again at the Kingsclere-Burghfield Common crossing . |