Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 2 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 3 | Richard was also pleased with the visit , and drove us home at high speed ( Bob said he touched 100 mph — ca n't say I noticed . |
| 4 | Looking at his glistening face , his cheeks and forehead like apple-skins , Cameron wondered what fired him most at this moment — self-satisfaction ? or a true pleasure in poetic language ? |
| 5 | I talked him down at one point |
| 6 | Nor were matters helped by Violet gaining ten ‘ A's in her O levels , losing a stone and getting her first boyfriend , who rang her constantly at all hours of the night from Beverly Hills . |
| 7 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 8 | erm But they were disappointed when John Thorn equalised after another five minutes and he put them ahead at half time by two one . |
| 9 | Well he had this environment mental officer , they they in inaugurated him then at this meeting meeting when erm the thing you handed over |
| 10 | Did he not at that time , on the brink of collapse , feel something sustaining him , feeding him , encouraging him ? |
| 11 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 12 | But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 14 | Picked him up at Imperial College . |
| 15 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |