Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | I believe some of them visited at first , but it gradually dwindled — even Sonia and Paul Mason , whom she was very friendly with , stopped visiting . |
2 | I asked at last . |
3 | I mean at first I did n't know what you mean , but I do now . |
4 | ‘ I prefer it on this side of the sea , ’ I say at last , and I mean it , though I ca n't quite remember which sea I 'm talking about . |
5 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
6 | ‘ Yeah , ’ I muttered at last . |
7 | ’ All right , ’ I muttered at last , and turned towards the disposal to jettison the bug . |
8 | The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely . |
9 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
10 | I messed at first with Harry Phillimore , who was to become a lifelong friend . |
11 | Moving with no clear sense of direction , I arrived at last at a wooden hut , set in a clearing in the forest which covered that part of the mountain . |
12 | " Please do stop , " I begged at last . |
13 | I know at last erm , budget meeting we talked about doing so for the entire health survey , because really the amount of money spent on sickness is quite astronomical , and one does need to look at this when you 're having to meet your budget . |
14 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
15 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
16 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
17 | When I started at first erm |
18 | But despite how I felt at first about myself when I lost my leg , I have n't really had that many problems with boyfriends . |
19 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
20 | PAUSE I thought I knew at last who you were , why you liked me at school , why you took the trouble to read those poems I 'd written . |
21 | When I first met John Hurt in 1977 , when he was in Devon filming The Shout , I saw at first hand how much he drank . |
22 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
23 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
24 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
25 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
26 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
27 | Pete , of Bruton , Somerset , said yesterday : ‘ I laughed at first because I did not believe it . |
28 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
29 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
30 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |