Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 2 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 3 | Saturday , 13th : Arrived at Delhi airport over two hours late , at 06.30. met me personally at the barrier and eased me through the arrival formalities . |
| 4 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
| 5 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 6 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 7 | Er very often Australian Aboriginal societies you meet men the corroborees at these ritual gatherings and if you 're one of the club , then in the ritual they 'll tell you , they 'll say hey , you know , you know you know you say where did you get all these kangaroos you know oh we got them over at the so and so ranges or down at the so and so water hole that 's where they all are this week , and this is very important information for man . |
| 8 | As I said I 'm , I 'm , I got them out at I think it were twenty one ninety nine or were it twenty five ninety nine ? they were twenty one ninety nine or twenty five ninety now , I ca n't remember off the cuff . |
| 9 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 10 | ‘ A lot of players , including Gazza , found the game passed them by at times . |
| 11 | The genitors of the children had a recognized standing in relation to their spouses but they visited them only at night and did not take food in the taravad house of their " wives " . |
| 12 | Leigh travelled to London to meet the Goldsmiths later in July , but " found them not at home " . |
| 13 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
| 14 | No I was talking to Julie yesterday , she phoned me up at the |
| 15 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 16 | This pendulum visualisation helped me considerably at the point where I was just about to master the hovering stage . |
| 17 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 18 | Eventually when we found ourselves nearly at 1,500ft , I said to myself , and into the microphone , quite plainly so he could overhear : " This puts the undercarriage up . " |
| 19 | At the end of every clawing tack we found ourselves back at almost the same place we had started ; we began to learn the realities of life aboard a Bugis prahu . |
| 20 | Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them . |
| 21 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 22 | The Bloodthirster cast itself forward at Indraugnir and slowly wrestled the dragon down . |
| 23 | You see and they called it the , the church of Saint Constantine , and it shifted from here and they built one down at the and then they shifted from the to the present site in about seventeen forty . |
| 24 | As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen . |
| 25 | The three words were not a great deal for Carrie to pin her hopes to , but she had a warm and happy glow deep inside her as she let herself in at the door of the cottage . |
| 26 | The same was true of the enormously influential Bridget of Sweden who , despite an early marriage and eight children , lived an increasingly ascetic and religious life to which she devoted herself completely at her husband 's death . |
| 27 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 28 | Afterwards she found herself back at the Collector 's bedside in the same churning confusion of day and night . |
| 29 | It moved him not at all . |
| 30 | I caught him up at last . |