Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [num ord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater . |
| 2 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 3 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 4 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 5 | Her current job is marketing controller for South East sales region , but when she left University she at first had no idea what she wanted to do . |
| 6 | She at first refuses to help him , suspecting a trap to catch her out in witchery , but as the clerk , Wilekin , persists she finally agrees to solve the problem , accepting twenty shillings in payment . |
| 7 | In interview , she at first denied being dishonest but later admitted it . |
| 8 | Never having taken much interest in the garden at Four Winds , other than it being a place in which to read or play solitary games , she at first decided that it was probably best to let him have his way ; but his silences began to unnerve her , as much as his occasional seemingly innocent remarks about his previous employers . |
| 9 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 10 | When the audience broke into applause on first beholding the characteristically extravagant set she at first appeared dumbfounded and then sat back in her seat rather stiffly . |
| 11 | She at first regarded the episode as a nightmare : ‘ I dreamed I seemed to you all to have died . ’ |
| 12 | But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance . |
| 13 | He flung his head to one side and muttered something , his face was twisted up ; he pushed himself away and fell out through the entrance and on to his knees , and she sat down on the floor for her legs felt weak and the wounded one was throbbing painfully , and she crawled over to Sycorax and lay down beside her and sobbed hot , dry grief until she at last fell asleep . |
| 14 | And it must have been the fever , Isabel decided a long time later , when she at last had time to sit down and rest . |
| 15 | So when those industrious fingers and wet lips finally arrived to caress her defenceless pudenda she at last found herself aroused . |
| 16 | Only when the water began to cool did she at last climb out and towel herself dry . |
| 17 | After all , it 's now only afternoon tea , instead of lunch as we at first thought it would be . ’ |
| 18 | Very very much more effective , perhaps more so than we at first realize , although it is almost obvious when we reflect further . |
| 19 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 20 | I have known you always , it seems , and when we at last met I felt the air between us stir as if you too knew . ’ |
| 21 | it 's been cleaned with er windowlene , we do n't want you licking that in case there 's any traces on it , apart from the filthy mess you make of the window , right , there 's one coat on , are we at last beginning to get somewhere I ask myself |
| 22 | His pantomime became most articulate when we at last reached the two vast geological features which mark the gateway to Torajaland . |
| 23 | We bore a letter of introduction from Werner Meyer to Puang Ranteallo , son of the late king — whom we at last tracked down in an astonishing arena . |
| 24 | Thank heavens we at last have at the helm a manager of exceptional gifts and a fabulous chairman , Mr Pahdra Singh , who has no interest in soccer . |
| 25 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 26 | After we at last say ‘ goodbye ’ to Funchal , turn right for Garajau ( so called by the island 's discoverers because of the large number of garajaus — terns — which nest there ) . |
| 27 | They should not export them without first getting permission from the importer and making sure that the receiving country can dispose of them properly . |
| 28 | Nestlé Co. could have obtained an injunction restraining the sale of those tins and they required the buyers not to resell them without first removing the labels . |
| 29 | I pay tribute to him for first raising the subject of league tables for schools ' performances in the Bill that he introduced earlier in the year . |
| 30 | And I would go in and I I never said nothing to him at first did I ? but I just could n't take it any more . |