Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment .
2 Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me .
3 I mean , I have n't had to clean it out at all .
4 and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it .
5 How much is it , two thousand pounds , well she 's offered to pay it back at two pounds a week and er it 's gon na take a long time , is n't it , Sir , for her to pay it back ?
6 She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag .
7 She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset .
8 Louise had n't wanted to send him away at all .
9 He was meant to phone me up at four !
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