Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 2 | I thought the liberal democrats failed abysmally at that the last election . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement . |
| 4 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 5 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |
| 6 | Whatever desperate or mundane disappointments might lie ahead , as we gazed down at those phantoms from another age I felt that we had become travellers in time . |
| 7 | The march was longer than I expected and we staggered in at half past six this morning , having done twenty-seven miles in just over nine hours , which is n't bad . |
| 8 | His black brows rose sceptically at this small amount of information . |
| 9 | Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all . |
| 10 | She would have stayed asleep , too , if not for the outrageous racket that erupted outside at that very moment . |
| 11 | Rents on new takings rose hardly at all on Crown lands between the 1550s and the 1590s , whereas on the Seymour estates they increased fivefold and on the Herbert lands by 80 per cent . |
| 12 | So I gave myself just half an hour to get to the theatre and prepare for curtain up — and phoned home at each interval . |
| 13 | Colours and patterns changed hardly at all and the dinky club badge remained firmly in place . |
| 14 | I 'm sorry to report that I behaved rudely at this point . |
| 15 | Her heart beat erratically at that but she managed to shake her head in disbelief . |
| 16 | She drew back at this . |
| 17 | Movement artefacts gave rapid fluctuations that occurred simultaneously at all recording sites and were easily differentiated from colonic contractions and discarded from analysis . |
| 18 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 19 | Chuck peered intently at each girl they passed , but without exception they avoided his gaze . |
| 20 | Chola winced visibly at this , and Śań4kar carried on . |
| 21 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 22 | She then discovered that she cared not at all for the dangerous glint that suddenly appeared in his eyes as he stared down into her still blush-pinkened skin . |
| 23 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 24 | His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall . |
| 25 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 26 | Nan came in at that moment . |
| 27 | He turned away impatiently and Jules came in at that moment , bringing coffee on a silver tray , and the conversation had to end , to Jenna 's great relief . |
| 28 | Ilse came in at that moment . |
| 29 | Mrs Stych came in at half past one , her wings bedraggled from the weight of her coat . |
| 30 | Tessa came in at half past eight and looked overjoyed . |