Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [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 | It moved him not at all . |
| 19 | I caught him up at last . |
| 20 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 21 | Six o'clock found her downstairs at the kitchen grate , readying the little house for the day . |
| 22 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
| 23 | James was full of praise for the medical teams who helped him both at the scene and at Coleraine hospital . |
| 24 | He beat her easily at chess the following week , but when he came again she had been thinking and remembering . |
| 25 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 26 | I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work . |
| 27 | We found it over at Scano 's . |
| 28 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 29 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 30 | ‘ We had breakfast and Mummy dropped me off at the playground , ’ Verena told police . |