Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Cathy got pregnant at fourteen by the lodger who until recently had lived in her family 's home , her parents decided to take him to court . |
| 2 | When Michelle got pregnant at sixteen in the television series Eastenders , she brought the situation of teenage mothers to the attention of the nation . |
| 3 | RACHEL got pregnant at 15 because she wanted to leave school and get her own home . |
| 4 | Carol tells of a life going downhill after she became pregnant at 14 , of a descent into doctors ' prescriptions ( ‘ Largactil , Valium , you name it … |
| 5 | But I became pregnant at that point and was absolutely thrilled . |
| 6 | A late stimulus for the evolution of distinctive mammals was the Pleistocene Ice Age , although a variety also became extinct at this time . |
| 7 | Something I found distasteful at first was the actual preparation of Dawn 's food . |
| 8 | Cardiff screened his eyes from the rain as he drew level at last with the other two men . |
| 9 | It became impossible at that time to use words like ‘ proletarian ’ , ‘ working class ’ or ‘ Blue Col ’ . |
| 10 | The target beneficiary was the salaried ‘ family man ’ who , by reason of earning more than the £250 limit applied to non-manual workers , was excluded from participation in the new 1925 contributory state scheme , under which a retirement pension became payable at 65 and a modest pension became available to widows of any age ( Groves , 1983 , p. 41 ) . |
| 11 | which , so that you got the stables shut up before it got dark at four o'clock , ai n't it |
| 12 | The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness . |
| 13 | I thought I heard the sound of horses in the distance , which seemed strange at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 14 | Although Eisenhower chose to sum up somewhere between Humphrey and the US Joint Chiefs , with each crisis being dealt with in the light of the prevailing circumstances , he agreed that if constructive talks with the USSR seemed possible at any time , it would be wrong to disappoint public hopes of some relaxation of the Cold War . |
| 15 | The divan , lifted high at one end by Ludens , suddenly began to rush down the stairs , nearly overturning Jack and making a long scar upon the wallpaper with one of its feet . |
| 16 | The mood seemed similar at many places on the site — less whistling and singing than usual , more talking . |
| 17 | She seemed nervous at first , then almost resentful of the older woman 's presence . |
| 18 | It seemed churlish at this point to mention that Eitzel had come all the way from San Francisco and is one of the greatest songwriters humanity has ever known . |
| 19 | Backley , needing to reach the 80-metre mark , must have been sweating when his opening effort dropped short at 79.36 but he went through with his second throw of 80.76 . |
| 20 | He he very rarely played truant a boy did n't it 's er in fact I er I do n't think I ever did , to my knowledge played truant at all during school . |
| 21 | Not having to give verbal commands seemed uncanny at first , but before long it just seemed natural . |
| 22 | The little old lady seemed pleased at this . |
| 23 | It has n't been easy , but at Walton Heath his dream came true at last . |
| 24 | His Senior Assistant is 24-year old Max Taylor from Southport , who turned professional at 18 after winning the Junior Championship at Bootle Golf Club ( Liverpool ) . |
| 25 | She turned professional at 15 and spent 2 years on the tennis circuit and is now ranked in the top 5 in Britain . |
| 26 | He came in so unexpectedly I probably acted dumb at first . |
| 27 | Judith got married at last in February 1616 . |
| 28 | Oleg Ban became angry at that . |
| 29 | First the millionaire star — who has soared into the charts at No 16 with his new single Sentinel — landed shaking with terror after the plane doors flew open at 5,000 feet on one of his first training flights . |
| 30 | The domed structure was wrecked , smashed open at one side like an eggshell . |