Example sentences of "at [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he found it , he tapped along the feed pipe at random and then gave a couple of good , square bangs on the connectors before he tried the starter button . |
| 2 | Peter Yeo , accustomed to leading from the front , had arrived at seven-thirty and personally made the coffee and brought in croissants , so that the reassuring presence of food greeted the other three partners . |
| 3 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 4 | I remember a recent visit to India where I hardly ate meat at all and never saw a chip . |
| 5 | In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents . |
| 6 | Similarly you get players such as Pallister who strulled at first and then became a bargain . |