Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere .
2 So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass .
3 ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea .
4 The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last .
5 He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by .
6 She could see that she had got to it at last .
7 The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine .
8 After that he had worried about nothing at all .
9 I was n't even sure how far things had gone between you at that stage .
10 Edward had remarked to him at one stage .
11 It was patently clear to all that Samuel Pipkin could have poisoned the water after he had drunk from it , if indeed he had drunk from it at all .
12 Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing .
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