Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |
| 2 | Later confiding that she was surprised that Kiefer turned up at all that day , the same press officer admits she was doubtful about the interview from the off . |
| 3 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 4 | I got up at eight this morning |
| 5 | I got up at eight this morning when Rudy went and put all them towels out and erm , when I got up at ten it , they were all dry |
| 6 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 7 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 8 | There was a tongue of flame and Asa pulled back the column and levelled out at two thousand feet . |
| 9 | The Mayan city is built from white , hand-hewn rocks , laid out at perfect right angles and dominated by a giant pyramid . |
| 10 | Mr E , however , countered each example with either ‘ it wo n't work with Dave ’ or ‘ I 've tried all this ’ , and switched off at any good idea offered , unable to listen , making himself , like Dave , the only one in the group so different and obstructive . |
| 11 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |
| 12 | Secretaries hit out at that bad office equipment |
| 13 | Dr Hendron also hit out at some unionist politicians who , he claimed , condemned loyalist violence ‘ with a tongue in their cheek ’ . |
| 14 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 15 | On October ninth , the Ninety Second Group participated in the Eighth Airforce 's longest mission to assault the harbour area at Gdynia , Poland on the western side of the Danzig , twenty one aircraft led by took off at eight hundred hours and twenty returned ten and a half hours later . |
| 16 | Her career quickly took off at top international level ; his did not , and eventually he went back to Russia . |
| 17 | As they walked over the little grey bridges that spanned the canals , as she stared up at tall Dutch gables or floodlit towers , Luke told her a little of the history of the city . |
| 18 | ‘ Somebody will be asking you questions more formally but perhaps you could tell me if you went out at all last evening ? ’ |
| 19 | The first time , Dot cried out at this new kind of hurt . |